Opening of Bids - WWTP Masonry Improvement Gallery Buildings 1-4 Proj No. 120-036 - Larson-Danielson Construction Co., Inc.

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