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Ordinance No. 2001-46 (8) Disclosure of any litigation (including copies of pleadings) in which the bidder has been named as a defendant or third party defendant in an action involving a claim for personal injury or wrongful death arising from performance of work related to any project in which it has been engaged within the previous five years; (9) Disclosure of allegations of violations of the prevailing wage law and any other state or federal labor law, including, but not limited to, child labor violations, faiture to pay wages, or unemployment insurance tax delinquencies or unfair labor practices witlvn the past five years; (10) Disclosure of violations of the workers compensation law; (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, ar 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 program; (14) Documentation that the bidder provides health insurance and pension benefits to its employees; (15) Identification of whether the bidder's workfarce 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 and/or compared to other bids submitted, the Director shall have the right to inquire further of the apparent 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 paragraph (b) above, the City Board of Control shall notify said apparent lowest bidder of the same m writing, statmg 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 has been heard, or, after notice has been given, the bidder fails to appear or declines to be heard. 3