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Sec. 2 of an Act entitled 'AN ACT concerning the awarding of contracts for the performance of public work and <br />authorizing the board of accounts to prescribe certain forms to be used in ascertaining the responsibility of contractors who <br />submit bids for the performance of such work, providing for plans and specifications, providing for bids repealing certain laws <br />and declaring an emergency." (Approved March 13, 1947.) <br />Sec. 2. Whenever the aggregate costs of any work or improvement will be five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or more, for <br />the purpose of enabling such board, commission, trustee, officer or agent to ascertain and determine which of the bidders <br />submitting bids for the performance of any such public work is, in the judgment of such board, commission, trustee, officer or <br />agent, the lowest and/or best bidder and to exercise intelligently the discretion hereby conferred on such board, commission, <br />trustee, officer or agent each bidder shall be required to submit under oath with and as a part of his bid a statement of his <br />experience, his proposed plan for performing such work and the equipment which he has available for the performance of such <br />work and a financial statement. The statements hereby required shall be submitted on forms which shall be prescribed by the state <br />board of accounts. The forms so prescribed shall be designated, respectively, as the experience questionnaire, the plan and <br />equipment questionnaire and the contractor's financial statement, and shall be based, so far as applicable, on the standard <br />questionnaires and financial statement for bidders as approved and recommended by the joint conference on construction <br />practices, for use in investigating the qualifications of bidders on public construction work, and the forms so prescribed are <br />hereby prescribed as the forms which shall hereafter be used by all such boards, commissions, trustees, officers and agents in <br />obtaining the information which is required in the administration of this act. If the information submitted by any bidder on the <br />forms herein prescribed is found, on examination, to be unsatisfactory, the bid submitted by such bidder shall not be considered. <br />(Burns Statutes 1933, Sec. 53-109) Sec. 2, Chapter 306, Acts of 1947. <br />