§ 20.04.230. Contracts—Opening bids—Acceptance, rejection and forfeiture conditions.
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At the time and place named, such bids shall be publicly opened and read; no bid shall
be rejected for informality but shall be received if it can be understood what is
meant thereby. The department head supervising the project shall proceed to determine
the lowest and best bidder, and may let such contract to such bidder, or if all bids
received exceed by ten percent preliminary cost estimates prepared by an independent
consulting engineer or registered professional engineer retained for that purpose
by the City, he or she may reject all of them and re-advertise, or may proceed to
do the work under the direction of the department head supervising the project by
"day labor," and, in case of rejection of all bids all checks shall be returned to
the bidders; but if the contract be let, then, and in such case, all checks shall
be returned to the bidders, except that of the successful bidder, which shall be retained
until the contract be entered into for making such improvement between the bidder
and the City, in accordance with such bid, and the duly approved and accepted bond
therefor be filed in the office of the City Clerk. If the successful bidder fails
to enter into the contract in accordance with his bid within ten days from the date
at which he is notified that he is the successful bidder, the said check and the amount
thereof shall be forfeited to the City, and the same shall be delivered to the Director
of Finance and Administrative Services, who pay the same into the City Treasury to
the credit of the appropriate Local Improvement District Fund. Neither the department
head nor the City Council shall have the power to remit such forfeiture.
