The San Francisco call., 1898-04-09

Board. Before the award Of any con tract for doing any work authorized ipy | this Article, the Board shall cause no | tice to be posted conspicuously III us office for not less than five days, ana | published for the same time, inviting sealed proposals for the work contem- plated; except, however, that when any repairs or improvement, not exceeding an estimated cost of five hundred dol- lars, shall be deemed of urgent neces- sity by the Board, such repairs or inn provement may be made by the Board under written contract or otherwise, l without advertising for sealed propo- | SalS
 Sec. 15. Said advertisement and mo- l tice shall invite sealed proposals 10 De delivered at a certain day and hour at | the office of the Board for furnishing the materials for the proposed work, or for doing said work, or for both, as may be deemed best by the Board, and shall contain general description Of the work to be done, the materials to be furnished the time in which the work is to be commenced, and when to be
 completed, and the amount of bond to
 be given for the faithful performance
 of the contract, and shall refer to plans
 and specifications on file in the office of
 the Board for full details and descrip- tion of said work and materials. Sec. 16. All proposals shall be made
 upon printed forms to be prepared by the Board, and furnished gratuitously
 upon application, with a form for the
 affidavit hereinafter provided for print ed thereon. Each bid shall have there
 on the affidavit of the bidder that such
 bid is genuine, and not collusive or sham; that he has not cOlluded, con- spired, connived or agreed, directly or indirectly, with any other bidder or person to put in a sham bid. or that such other person shall refrain from bidding: and has not in any manner sought by collision to secure any ad- l vantage against the City and County, or any person interested in said inn | provement, for himself or any other person. All bids shall be clearly and distinctly written, without any erasure or interlineation, and if any bid shall l have an erasure or interlineation 1t shall not be received or considered by
 the Board. Any contract made in vio-
 lation of any of the foregoing provi- sions, and in the case of improvement of streets, any assessment for the work done under such contract, shall be ab- Solutely void.
 All proposals offered shall be accom- panied by a check, certified by 8 re- | sponsible bank, payable to the order of the Clerk of the Supervisors, for an | amount not less than ten per centum
 of the aggregate of the proposal. and no proposal shall be considered unless accompanied by such check.
 No person, corporation or firm shall
 be allowed to make. file, or be interest ed in, more than one bid for the same
 work. If on the opening of said bids
 more than one bid appear in which the same person, corporation or firm is in
 terested, all such bids shall be rejected.
 Sec. IT. On the day and at the hour specified in said notice inviting sealed
 proposals the Board shall assemble and
 remain in session for at least one hour,
 and all bids shall be delivered to the
 Board while it is so in session, and within the hour named in the adver- tisement. No bid not so delivered to
 the Board shall be considered. Each bid as it shall be received shall be num-
 bered and marked Filed" by the Pres ident and authenticated by his sigma
 ture. At the expiration of the hour stated in the advertisement within which the bids will be received, the Board shall, in open session, open, ex
 anime and publicly declare the same, and an abstract of each bid shall be re-
 corded in the minutes of the Board by the Secretary. Before adjourning, the
 Board shall compare the bids with the
 record made by the Secretary, and shall thereupon, at said time, or at such other time, not exceeding twenty days
 thereafter, as the Board may adjourn to, award the contract to the lowest
 bidder, except as otherwise herein pro- yided. Notice of such award shall
 forthwith be posted for five days by
 the Secretary of the Board in some
 conspicuous place in the office of the Board, and be published for the same
 period of time.
 The Board may reject any and all
 bids, and must reject the bid of any hoa 1ali faithful in any former contract with the City and County, and all bids oth CT than the lowest regular bid; and on accepting said lowest bid, shall there
 upon return to the proper parties the checks corresponding to the bids so re- | jected. If all the bids are rejected, the Board shall return all the cheeks to 1 the proper parties and again invite | sealed proposals as in the first in- stance.
 The check accompanying the accept ed bid shall be held by the Secretary of the Board until the contract for doing
 said work. as hereinafter provided, has been entered into, whereupon said cer- tified check shall be returned to said
 bidder.
 If said bidder fails or refuses to en- 1 ter into the contract to do said work,
 as hereinafter provided, then the certi- | fled check accompanying his bid, and the amount therein mentioned, snail De | forfeited to the City and County, and
 shall be collected and paid into the
 General Fund. Neither the Board of Public Works nor the Supervisors shall have power to relieve from or remit l such forfeiture.
 | Sec. IS. If at any time it shall be found that the person to whom a con- ! tract has been awarded has, in pre- senting any bid or bids, colluded with any other party or parties, for the pur- | pose of preventing any other bid being
 made, then the contract so awarded
 shall be null and void, and the Board shall advertise for new contract for | said work.
 Sec. 19 In the case of improvement
 of streets, tAe owners of the major part | of the frontage of lots and lands upon the street whereon the work is to be
 done, or which are liable to be assessed | for said work, or, in the case of an
 assessment district, the owners of a
 major part of the superficial area em- | braced in such district, or their agents.
 shall not be required to present sealed proposals. but may, upon making oath | that they are such owners, or the 1