Senate Bill No. 403
(By Senator Tomblin, Mr. President)
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[Introduced January 31, 2007; referred to the Committee on
Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §7-15-16 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to increasing the limitation
requiring sealed bids for certain purchases and contracts
entered into by emergency ambulance service authorities.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §7-15-16 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 15. EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE ACT OF 1975.
§7-15-16. Competitive bids; publication of solicitation for
sealed bids.
A purchase of or contract for all supplies, equipment and
materials and a contract for the construction of facilities by any
authority, when the expenditure required exceeds the sum of
two
thousand five hundred twenty-five thousand dollars, shall be based
on competitive sealed bids.
Such Bids shall be obtained by public
notice published as a Class II legal advertisement in compliance
with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code and the publication area for
such publication
shall be is the
service area of the authority. The second publication shall be
made at least fourteen days before the final date for submitting
bids. In addition to
such publication, the notice may also be
published by any other advertising medium the authority may
consider advisable and the authority may also solicit sealed bids
by sending requests by mail to prospective suppliers and by posting
notice on a bulletin board in the office of the authority.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the limitation
requiring sealed bids for certain purchases and contracts entered
into by emergency ambulance service authorities.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.)
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