(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all contracts, of whatever character, pertaining to public improvement, or to the maintenance of the public property of the city involving an outlay of $2,000 or more, shall be based upon the specifications to be approved by the Council.
(B) Any work or other public improvement which is not to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessment or special taxation, when the expense thereof will exceed $20,000 shall be constructed as follows:
(1) By a contract let to the lowest responsible bidder after advertising for bids, by public notice, except that any such contract may be entered into by the proper officers without the advertising for bids, if authorized by a vote of four of the five Council members elected; or
(2) In the following manner, if authorized by a vote of four of the five Council members elected: the Commissioner of Public Property or other designated officers, shall superintend and cause to be carried out the construction of the work or other public improvement and shall employ exclusively for the performance of all manual labor thereon, laborers and artisans whom the city shall pay by the day or hour, but all material of the value of $20,000 and upward used in the construction of the work or other public improvement, shall be purchased by contract let to the lowest responsible bidder in the manner prescribed herein. Nothing contained in this section shall apply to any contract by the city with the United States of America or any agency thereof.
(1994 Code, § 30.21) (Ord. 2002-10, passed 7-8-2002; Ord. 11-04, passed 11-14-2011)
Statutory reference:
Specifications for contracts over $1,500 and over $5,000, see 65 ILCS 5/4-5-11