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Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, § 1210: Competitive bidding, 1973

A sanitary district must use competitive bidding for contracts over $2,000 to build certain private-property facilities, and normally must award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder unless there are valid…

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“A sanitary district must use competitive bidding for contracts over $2,000 to build certain private-property facilities, and normally must award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder unless there are valid reasons not to.”

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Competitive bidding

A sanitary district must use competitive bidding for contracts over $2,000 to build certain private-property facilities, and normally must award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder unless there are valid reasons not to.

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§ 1210Competitive biddingProvision

A sanitary district must use competitive bidding for contracts over $2,000 to build certain private-property facilities, and normally must award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder unless there are valid reasons not to.

Any contract in excess of $2,000 between a sanitary district, whether formed under this chapter or by private and special Act of the Legislature, and a contractor for the construction of facilities located on private property for the exclusive use of a private individual and for which the private individual is required to pay the total cost directly to the sanitary district, shall be awarded by a system of competitive bidding. Unless there are valid reasons to the contrary, the contracts shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. [PL 1973, c. 476, §2 (NEW).]
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