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Ordinance No. 2004-17
<br />(c) In the event the amount of the lowest bid appears disproportionately low when
<br />compared with estimates undertaken by or on behalf of the City andlor compared to other bids
<br />submitted, the Director shall have the right to inquire further of the apparent lowest bidder to
<br />determine whether the bid contains mathematical enors, omissions and/or erroneous
<br />assumptions, and whether the apparent lowest bidder has the capability to perform and complete
<br />the contract for the bid amount.
<br />(d) The Director shall make recommendations to the Board of Control with respect to
<br />the responsibility of every bidder whose bid is not otherwise disqualified or rejected. If the
<br />Director recommends that an apparent lowest bidder be disqualified or rejected for failure to
<br />meet the responsibility standards set forth in subsection (b) hereof, the City Board of Control
<br />shall notify said apparent lowest bidder of the same in writing, stating the responsibility
<br />standards which were not met by the bidder, and setting forth a time, date and place for the
<br />apparent lowest bidder to appear and be heard by the Board of Control, prior to a final
<br />determination being made regarding that bidder's responsibility. The Board shall not award a
<br />contract involving any such apparent lowest bidder until after the bidder has been heard, or, after
<br />notice has been given, the bidder fails to appear or declines to be heard."
<br />Be Amended, and, as Amended, shall read in its entirety as follows:
<br />"111.02 MANDATORY MINIMUM CONTRACTING STANDARDS RELATING
<br />TO BIDDER RESPONSIBILITY.
<br />(a) In connection with the public bidding and contract awarding process for every
<br />proposed improvement to City real property, including, but not limited to, City buildings, streets,
<br />and rights of way, for which bidding is required by law, the Director authorized to let bids for
<br />said proposed improvement shall, prior to the letting of bids, establish criteria for evaluating
<br />bidder responsibility and shall require that a11 bidders provide information necessary to ascertain
<br />the pecuniary and financial responsibility, accountability, reliability, skill, capacity, judgment,
<br />and integrity of each bidder to do business in the City. In the event that any bidder fails to
<br />furnish the requested information and/or the information provided demonstrates a lack of
<br />responsibility, such bidder shall be disqualified and rejected as not a responsible bidder.
<br />(b) The Director shall require each bidder to minimally furnish the following items:
<br />(1) Description of its experience with projects of comparable
<br />size, complexity, and cost within recent years, demonstrating the
<br />contractor's ability and capacity to perform a substantial portion of the
<br />project with its own forces;
<br />(2) Documentation from previous projects regarding timeliness
<br />of performance, quality of work, extension requests, fines and penalties
<br />imposed and payment thereof, liens filed, history of claims for extra work,
<br />contract defaults, together with explanations of same;
<br />(3) Identification and description of any projects within the
<br />previous five years that the bidder was determined by a public entity not to
<br />be a responsible bidder, and the reasons given by the public entity,
<br />together with an explanation thereof;
<br />(4) An adequate demonstration of financial responsibility,
<br />which may include in the Director's discretion, a certified financial
<br />statement prepaxed by a certified public accountant, to assure that the
<br />bidder possess adequate resources and availability of credit and the means
<br />and ability to procure insurance and bonds required for the project;
<br />(5) Disclosure of any suspension or revocation of any
<br />professional license of any director, officer, owner, or managerial
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