METHOD OF AWARD
Award will be made to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder(s) whose bid is the lowest best value to the City on the basis of Total Bid Price for each group. All items included in the Total Bid Price must be bid to be considered for award. The City reserves the right to award each Group to separate contractors or to the same contractor, in the event that contractor has the lowest bids on multiple groups.For purposes of this bid, if one or more bids are submitted by a business certified as an MWBE business by New York State on the date of the bid, the MWBE bidder(s) shall receive a five percent (5%) price advantage over non-MWBE bidders pursuant to Section 8 of Ordinance No. 2018-54. The lowest best value offer shall be defined as the lowest bid after adjusting for any MWBE price advantage. For example, if three bids are received, one for $100.00, one for $103.00, and one by an MWBE business for $105.00., the lowest best value offer would be the bid submitted by the MWBE business for $105.00. If instead the MWBE business submitted a bid for $105.01, the lowest best value offer would be the bid for $100.00. The same logic will be used by the City in comparing bids based upon discounts rather than specified unit prices. If award of the contract is based upon award by total bid, or by group, or by item, the City reserves the right to determine its lowest best value offer based upon total bid, group and per item prices offered. The City reserves the right to reject any bid where the unit price offered are unbalanced or are inconsistent with current market prices.Bidders must bid all items within each group in order to be considered for award for that Group. Supplemental Prices must be offered if available. If a bidder is not able to offer Supplemental Prices on any items, they should mark “NA”. The City reserves the right to reject any bid where a bidder is not able to offer Supplemental Prices for the majority of items. The City further reserves the right to reject a bid where unit prices are unbalanced or are not consistent with the current marketplace.
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