2006 Alabama Code - Section 41-4-135 — Entering into contract; failure of bidder to enter into contract within 10 days of acceptance.
When any proposal has been accepted, the Director of Finance must endorse the fact and the date of its acceptance therein and give notice thereof to the person, firm or corporation whose proposal has been accepted. Thereupon, the Director of Finance, in the name of the state, and such person, firm or corporation shall enter into contract in writing for the printing and binding covered by the accepted proposal for the time and in the manner prescribed by law on the terms expressed in the proposal. If such person, firm or corporation fails for 10 days to enter into the contract, the officers named in Section 41-4-134 may select the next lowest bidder for the printing and binding as to which the failure has occurred, and the person, firm or corporation failing and the sureties on his bond shall be jointly and severally liable to the state for all damages that may result from such failure, including the increased cost of the printing and binding, or either, for the term under any contract afterwards made and the expenses incident to the making of any subsequent contract.
(Code 1896, §3391; Code 1907, §1653; Code 1923, §2900; Acts 1939, No. 112, p. 144; Code 1940, T. 55, §115.)
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