55 ILCS 5/5-36006
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 5 - Powers And Duties Of County Boards

 (from Ch. 34, par. 5-36006)Sec. 5-36006.     Competitive bids; government surplus materials.     The purchases of and contracts for supplies, materials,  equipment and contractual services and all sales of personal property which  has become obsolete or unusable shall be based on competitive bids. If the  amount involved is estimated to exceed $10,000, sealed bids shall be  solicited by public notice inserted at least once in a newspaper of  countywide circulation and at least five calendar days before the final  date of submitting bids. Such notices shall include a general description  of the commodities or contractual services to be purchased or personal  property to be sold and shall state where all blanks and specifications may  be obtained and the time and place for the opening of bids. The county  purchasing agent may also solicit sealed bids by sending requests by mail  to prospective suppliers and by posting notices on a public bulletin board  in his office. If supplies, materials, equipment, and contractual services  can be obtained through, or are manufactured or produced by, persons confined  in institutions and facilities of the Illinois Department of Corrections, the  county purchasing agent is expressly required to solicit sealed bids from the  Illinois Department of Corrections for such supplies, materials, equipment, and  contractual services by sending requests for bids by mail to the Illinois  Department of Corrections.  All purchases or sales of $10,000 or less may be  made in the  open market without publication in a newspaper as above provided, but  whenever practical shall be based on at least three competitive bids. All  sales of obsolete or unusable material shall be made to the highest  responsible bidder. Wherever the Board of Standardization hereinafter  provided for shall have prescribed standard specifications, bids on  purchases of supplies, materials and equipment shall be based on such  standard specifications. All purchases, orders or contracts shall be  awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, taking into consideration the  qualities of the articles supplied, their conformity with the  specifications, their suitability to the requirements of the county and the  delivery terms. All bids may be rejected and new bids solicited if the  public interest may be served thereby. In all cases where the amount of the  expenditure, or sales price of obsolete and unusable equipment, exceeds  $10,000, the Board of Commissioners shall not approve any purchase or order  or contract or sale except on the recommendation of the county purchasing  agent unless the recommendation of the county purchasing agent and the  reasons for not accepting his recommendation are spread at large on the  published records of the Board of Commissioners. Each bid, with the name of  the bidder, shall be entered on a record, which record with the successful  bid indicated thereon shall, after the award of the purchase or order or  contract, be open to public inspection. A copy of all contracts shall be  filed with the County Comptroller and with the county purchasing agent.Contracts which by their nature are not adapted to award by competitive  bidding, such as contracts for the services of individuals possessing a  high degree of professional skill where the ability or fitness of the  individual plays an important part, contracts for printing of Finance  Committee pamphlets, Comptroller's estimates, and departmental reports,  contracts for the printing or engraving of bonds, tax warrants and other  evidences of indebtedness, contracts for utility services such as water,  light, heat, telephone or telegraph, and contracts for the purchase of  magazines, books, periodicals and similar articles of an educational or  instructional nature, and the binding of such magazines, books,  periodicals, pamphlets, reports and similar articles shall not be subject  to the competitive bidding requirements of this Section. The purchasing  agent is expressly authorized to procure from any federal, state or local  governmental unit or agency thereof such surplus materials, supplies,  commodities or equipment as may be made available through the operation of  any legislation heretofore or hereafter enacted without conforming to the  competitive bidding requirements of this Section. Regular employment  contracts in the county service, whether with respect to the classified  service or otherwise, shall not be subject to the provisions of this  Section nor shall this Section be applicable to the granting or issuance  pursuant to powers conferred by laws, ordinances or resolutions, of  franchises, licenses, permits or other authorizations by the county board,  or by departments, offices, institutions, boards, commissions, agencies or  other instrumentalities of the county, nor to contracts or transactions,  other than the sale or lease of personal property, pursuant to which the  county is the recipient of money.The provisions of this Section are subject to any contrary provision  contained in "An Act concerning the use of Illinois mined coal in certain  plants and institutions", filed July 13, 1937, as heretofore or hereafter  amended.    (Source: P.A. 89-89, eff. 6-30-95.)