(a) The award of the contract, if it is awarded, will be to the lowest and best bidder whose proposal complies with all the requirements prescribed. The Municipality reserves the right to consider all elements entering into the question of determining the qualifications and responsibility of any bidder. The Municipality may accept a proposal and award a contract which is greater or less in any amount than the Village Engineer's estimate. Where bids are taken in the form of separate proposals on portions of one project, the work will ordinarily be awarded to the contractor, otherwise qualified, whose combined bid is the lowest. No bidder bidding on all such proposals shall be required to enter into a contract covering less than the entire project without that bidder's consent.
(b) The award, if made, will be made within sixty days after opening the proposals, unless the time for awarding and executing the contract is extended by mutual consent of the Municipality and the bidder whose proposal the Municipality accepts. No increase shall be made in the contract price for any damages, costs or expenses incurred by the bidder as a result of such extension unless such increase is specifically approved in writing by the Municipality as a change order to the contract. In no case will a contract award be made until the certification of funds by the Village Fiscal Officer and all necessary investigations are made as to the responsibility of the bidder to whom it is proposed to award the contract.
(Ord. 05-109. Passed 4-21-05.)