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<br />' Ordinance No. 2004-57
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<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 all 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 prepared by a certified public accountant, io 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
<br />employee of the bidder, to the extent that any work to be performed is
<br />within the field of such licensed profession;
<br />(6) Disclosure of any and all OSHA violations within the
<br />previous three years, as well as all notices of OSHA citations filed against
<br />the bidder in the same three-year period, together with a description and
<br />explanation of remediation or other steps taken regarding such violations
<br />and notices of violation;
<br />(7) Disclosure of any and all violations within the previous five
<br />years pertaining to unlawful intimidation or discrimination agamst any
<br />employee by reason of race, creed, color, disability, sex, or national origin
<br />andlor violations of an employee's civil or labor rights or equal
<br />employment opportunities;
<br />(8) Disclosure of any litigation (including copies of pleadings)
<br />in which the bidder has been named as a defendant or third party
<br />defendant in an action involving a claim for personal injury or wrongful
<br />death arising from performance of work related to any project in which it
<br />has been engaged within the previous five years;
<br />(9) Disclosure of allegations of violations of the prevailing
<br />wage law and any other state or federal labor law, including, but not
<br />limrted to, child labor violations, failure to pay wages, or unemployment
<br />insurance tax delinquencies or unfair labor practices within the past five
<br />years;
<br />(10) Disclosure of violations of the Worker's Compensation
<br />law;
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