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Ordinance No. 2001-46 111.02 MANDATORY MIlVIMIIM 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 the said proposed improvement shall, priar to the letting of bids, establish criteria for evaluating bidder responsibility and shall require that all bidders provide information necessary to ascertam the pecuniary and fmancial responsibility, accountability, reliability, skill, capacity, judgment, and integrity of each said 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 responsbility, 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 ability and capacity to perform a substantial portion of the project with its own forces; (2) Documentation from previous projects regarding timeliness of performance, quality of work, extension requests, fines and penalties imposed and payment thereof, liens filed, history of claims for extra work, contract defaults, together with explanations of same; (3) Identification and description of any projects within the previous five years that the bidder was determined by a public entity not to be a responsible bidder, the reasons given by the public entity, together with an explanation thereof; (4) An adequate demonstration of financial responsibility, which may include in the Director's discretion, a certified financial statement prepared by a certified public accountant, to assure that the possesses adequate resources and availability of credit and the means and ability to procure insurance and bonds required for the project; (5) Disclosure of any suspension or revocations of any professional license of any director, officer, owner, or managerial employee of the bidder, to the eatent that any work to be performed is within the field of such licensed profession; (6) Disclosure of any and all OSHA violations with the previous three years, as well as all notices of OSHA citations filed against the bidder in the same three year period, together with a description and explanation of remediation or other steps taken regarding such violations and notices of violation; (7) Disclosure of any and all violations within the previous five years pertaining to unlawful 'mtimidation or discrimination against any employee by reason of race, creed, color, disability, sex, or national origin and/or violations of an employee's civil or labor rights or equal employment opportunities; 2