Court Opinion

ID: 9777246
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:04:04.992655+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:50.814662
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing
PER CURIAM.
On motion for rehearing, relators contend the foregoing opinion holds the County Budget Law not applicable to the purchase of voting machines. It does not so hold. To the contrary, we expressly refrain from passing upon that issue for the reason it is unnecessary to a decision of the issues presented by the pleadings and briefs. What the opinion holds is that respondents’ brief irrefutably reveals that the bid on the Shoup machines was rejected not because it was not the lowest and best bid obtainable for that kind and type of machine, but solely because respondents prefer a different type of machine; and that respondents have no right to reject the bid on that ground.
Respondents further assert that the advertisement for bids did not set forth specifications sufficient to include the Shoup machine and, for that reason, respondents may be subjected to “liability for awarding a bid otherwise than in accordance with the advertisement”. This is clearly an afterthought, no such suggestion has heretofore been made.
The remaining assignments have been considered and found to be without merit. The motion for rehearing is overruled.