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Sec. 2 ofan Act entitled "AN AC"I'concerning the awarding of contracts for the performance of ptiblic work and authorizing <br />the board of accounts to prescribe certain forms to be used in ascertaining dw responsibility of contractors who submit bids for the <br />performance of such work, providing for plans and speci.fication,,.s, providing for bids repealing certain laws and declaring an <br />einergenc,Y 7 (.Approved March 13, 1947.) <br />See., 2. Wlienever the aggregate costs of any work or improvement will be five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or more, for the <br />purpose of enabling such board, cornriiission, trustee, officer or agent to ascertain arid determine which of the bidders submitting <br />bids Farr the performance of any such public work. is, in the judgment of such board, commission, trustee, officer or agent, the lowest <br />andJor best bidderand to exercise intelligently the discretion hereby conferred on such board, corrunission, tnjstee, orficer or agent: <br />each bidder shall. be required to subirdt under oath with and as a part ofhis bid a staternent of his experience, his proposed plan for <br />performing such work and the equidpirient which he, has availaffle for the performance of such work and a financial staternent. The <br />statements hereby required shall be submitted on forryis which shall be prescribed by the state board ofaccounts. The forms so <br />prescribed shall be designated, respectively, as the experience questionnaire, the plan and equipment, questionnaire and the <br />contractor's financial statement, and shall be based, so far as appficable, on the standard questionnaires and financial statement Farr <br />or <br />bidders as approved and recommended by the joint conference on construction practices, for use in investigating the qualifications <br />of bidders on public construction work, and the forins, so prescribed are hereby prescrilbed as the forms which shaU hereafter be <br />used by all such bow-ds, commissions, trustees, officers and agents in obtaining the information which N required in the <br />administration of this act. If the infon-nation submitted by any bidder on the forms herein prescribed is found, on examination, to <br />be unsatisfactory, the bid submitted by such bidder shall not be considered. (Burns Statutes 1933, Sec. 53-109) See. 2, Cbapter306, <br />Acts of 1947, <br />2 <br />