Alabama § 45-48-70.21 - Competitive Bid Procedures.

§ 45-48-70.21. Competitive Bid Procedures.

The commission shall comply with the state bid law applying to county governing bodies and any other sections of this subpart applying to competitive bid procedures and in addition, the commission shall furnish to a newspaper published in Marshall County, to be published therein as a legal advertisement paid for at the usual rate by the county, a notice or advertisement stating that sealed bids will be received on a specified date at the office of the commission for the article or articles or services described in the order of the commission. The notice shall also state that complete specifications and description of the article or articles or service or services to be purchased are available at the office of the commission or on the bulletin board outside the commissioners’ office. In sending such advertisements to the newspapers the commission shall take care that each newspaper published in the county gets a fair share of publishing of such notices and to this end a system of rotation shall be established whereby all newspapers published in the county shall be patronized. At the expiration of the time for receiving bids, the chair shall deliver all sealed bids unopened to the commission at its next session, and thereupon the commission shall open the bids and award the purchase to the lowest responsible bidder and order the chair to issue a purchase order thereon; or, the commission may reject all bids and invite new bids in the manner herein provided. The names of all bidders, the amounts bid, a complete description or itemization of items bid on, and the terms of the bid shall be listed and released as information for publication to all county newspapers. Neither the chair nor the commission shall have authority to accept any bid unless at the time of accepting the same the county has funds on hand sufficient to pay for the same.