The Town Council for the Town of Southington is hereby establishing
this article under the provision of C.G.S. § 7-148v to develop
a procedure to be used by all boards, departments and the Board of
Education for the Town of Southington for qualification of bidders
under certain criteria.
[Amended 10-9-2012]
It shall be required by all boards, departments and the Board
of Education of the Town of Southington that when it is determined
that a new project requires specific criteria primarily influenced
by past experiences in similar and related projects all bidders must
be qualified.
If a department head or a board concludes that a project falls under §
118-2, a written notification shall be sent to the Town Manager, Town Engineer and Chairman of the Public Works Committee and, if a sewer project, to the Chairman of the Sewer Committee.
The Town Engineer or his designee, in consultation with the
Town Attorney, the Town Manager, the Town Council and the department
head most closely associated with the project, shall establish the
criteria and requirements necessary for the qualification of all bidders.
These criteria shall include but not be limited to past experiences,
available manpower and financial ability.
To solicit prospective bidders through qualification process,
the Town Engineer, or his designee, shall notify said prospective
bidders by publishing the qualification requirements as set forth
in this article.
The Town Engineer or his designee, in consultation with the
Town Attorney, the Town Manager, the Town Council and the department
head most closely associated with the project, shall review the qualifications
of the three lowest bids submitted and shall interview the three bidders
who meet these qualifications. If the three lowest bids submitted
do not qualify, then the next lowest responsible bidders, in order,
shall be reviewed. If the contractor is previously qualified by the
State of Connecticut on its project list for similar projects, the
contractor is deemed qualified under this article.
The final bid package for a project under this article shall
be exclusively directed to the proposed bidder deemed qualified under
this article.