The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-04
WILL CALL FOR
PRINTING BIDS
UNDER THE AMENDED LAW EX-
HAUSTIVE DATA MUST BE Sc
CURED AND SUBMITTED TO
PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS.
Special to The journal.

Tallahassee, July S.-The legislature
Of 1911 amended the laws regulating
contracts for public printing by the
passage Of the following act:
Advertising for Bids and Duration of
Contracts.
1t shall be the duty Of the board Of
commissioners of state institutions to
give thirty days notice by publication
in one or more newspapers in this
state, calling for bids to do the state
printing, as required in this act. The
said notice by said board shall specify
that separate prices shall be made for
each kind Of work. and material to be
furnished, carefully classifying them,
with an estimate or estimates of the
amount of work and material Of each
class, and further stating the mode Of
proceeding to let such contract the
the said bond shall be entered by the
accepted bidder; also retaining the
right to reject any and all bids For
such notice and bidding, all the public
printing to be done for the administra-
tive departments of the state govern
ment shall be separately designated as
Glass A; all Of the printing required
to be done for the legislative depart
ment of the state government shall be
separately designated as Glass B; all
of the printing required to be done for
the supreme court shall be separately
designated as Glass G. The said board
Of commissioners of state institutions
shall not require to be submitted with
the bids for the public printing a Ger
titled check in a greater amount than
one thousand dollars for the said
classes, A, B and G. The said board in
submitting advertisements for bids on
classes A, B and G shall give bidders
an opportunity to submit a separate
BID on all three classes Of the work as
n whole. Upon the expiration Of the
contract or contracts for public print
ing now In force, the board Of com
missioners for state institutions shall
enter into new contract or con-
tracts for the said several classes of
public printing, and such contracts
may be made by said board hereafter
for a period of either two years or a
period of four years, as in the judg-
ment Of the said board is deemed for
the best interest of the state"
Under this amended law, the secre-
tary Of the board Of commissioners Of
state Institutions is now taking the
preliminary steps to secure from all Of
the departments of the state gov
eminent exhaustive data to be sub
mitted to the prospective bidders for
lllO neat SldlC printing COHLEdCls II
is hoped to have this important part
Of the states business on a better and
more satisfactory basis than ever be-
fore, and that under the amended law
the bidding will prove unusually at
tractive to F1orida's printing estab-
lishments, as a result of which the
state will get the benefit Of lively COM
petition.
The recent purchase by the board Of
commissioners Of state institutions Of
an additional 1000 acres, gives an
area Of about $4,000 acres to the pro-
posed Florida State Prison Farm. This
land was bought at five dollars per
acre, and the board has certified to
the comptroller TO pay for same. The
board is now Formulating plans for
the buildings to be placed on the farm
and their occupancy.
The state building commission, con-
sisting Of Messrs. George Lewis. A. L.
Wilson, D. A. Finlayson and Judges r.
F. Taylor and W. B. Yonge, met in
Tallahassee a few days ago for the
purpose Of looking over available PROP
erty suitable for the site Of the new
supreme court building and discussing
other matters pertaining to the cree
ton Of this important structure. A
sub committee was appointed TO com
plete the investigation, the members Of
which are Governor Gilchrist, A. c.
Groom and George Lewis.