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