2006 Alabama Code - Section 41-4-134 — Opening of bids; acceptance of bids; rejection and readvertisement of bids.

The Director of Finance must, after the twentieth and before the thirtieth day of the month in which bids are received, open the same in the presence of the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer, or any two of them, and the Director of Finance, by and with the approval of the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer, any two concurring, or in the case of Class 2(a) printing as defined in Section 41-4-131 with the approval of the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate or in the case of Class 2(b) printing if the Clerk of the House or Secretary of the Senate elect not to print and bind their own respective journals, then with the approval of said clerk and secretary, shall select the lowest responsible bidder, either for the classes separately or for the classes combined, as may be to the best interest of the state, but no bid unaccompanied by a bond as required in this division shall be considered. If, in the judgment of a majority of the said officers present, the public interest can be served best thereby, all the proposals, or all for either class, may be rejected, whereupon the Director of Finance shall advertise again in all respects as in the first instance for proposals to do the public printing or binding, or that class of it, the bids for which were rejected, and, upon the coming in of the new bids, they shall be considered, passed on and accepted or rejected, and in the last event, advertisement made again as provided in this division with respect to the proposals first made.

(Code 1896, §3390; Code 1907, §1652; Code 1923, §2899; Acts 1939, No. 112, p. 144; Code 1940, T. 55, §114; Acts 1983, No. 83-431, p. 612, §1; Acts 1990, No. 90-224, p. 280, §1.)