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Ordinance No. 2004-57 Page 3 (11) Disclosure of any criminal convictions or criminal indictments, involving the bidder, its officers, directors, owners and/or managerial employees, within the past five years; (12) Disclosure of any violations within the past five years of pending charges concerning federal, state, or municipal environmental and/or health laws, codes, rules andlor regulations; (13) Documentation of the bidder's participation in and contributions to any bona fide apprenticeship progam; (14) Documentation that the bidder provides health insurance and pension benefits to its employees; (15) Identification of whether the bidder's workforce is drawn mainly from area residents; (16) Identification of all work to be subcontracted. All subcontractors of bidders are also subject to the foregoing responsibility standards. (c) In the event the amount of the lowest bid appears disproportionately low when compared with estimates undertaken by or on behalf of the City andlor compared to other bids submitted, the Director shall have the right to inquire further of the appazent lowest bidder to determine whether the bid contains mathematical errors, omissions and/or erroneous assumptions, and whether the apparent lowest bidder has the capability to perform and complete the contract for the bid amount. (d) The Director shall make recommendations to the Board of Control with respect to the responsibility of every bidder whose bid is not otherwise disqualified or rejected. If the Director recommends that an apparent lowest bidder be disqualified or rejected for failure to meet the responsibility standards set forth in subsection (b) hereof, the City Board of Control shall notify said apparent lowest bidder of the same in writmg, stating the responsibility standards which were not met by the bidder, and setting forth a time, date and place for the apparent lowest bidder to appear and be heard by the Board of Control, prior to a final determination being made regarding that bidder's responsibility. The Board shall not award a contract involving any such apparent lowest bidder until after the bidder ha.s been heard, or, after notice has been given, the bidder fails to appear or declines to be heard." Be Amended, and, as Amended, shall read in its entirety as follows: "111.02 MANDATORY MINIMUM CONTRACTING STANDARDS RELATING TO BIDDER RESPONSIBILITY. (a) In connection with the public bidding and contract awarding process for every proposed improvement to City real property, including, but not limited to, City buildings, streets, and rights of way, for which bidding is required by law, the Director authorized to let bids for said proposed improvement shall, pnor to the letting of bids, establish criteria for evaluating bidder responsibility and shall require that all bidders provide information necessary to ascertain the pecuniary and financial responsibility, accountability, reliability, skill, capacity, judgment, and integrity of each bidder to do business in the City. In the event that any bidder fails to furnish the requested information and/or the information provided demonstrates a lack of responsibility, such bidder shall be disqualified and rejected as not a responsible bidder. (b) The Director shall require each bidder to minimally furnish the following items: (1) Description of its experience with projects of comparable size, complexity, and cost within recent years, demonstrating the contractor's abilrty and capacity to perform a substantial portion of the project with its own forces;