(55 ILCS 5/5-36006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-36006)
Sec. 5-36006.
Competitive bids; government surplus materials.
The purchases of and contracts for supplies, materials,
equipment and contractual services and all sales of personal property which
has become obsolete or unusable shall be based on competitive bids. If the
amount involved is estimated to exceed $10,000, sealed bids shall be
solicited by public notice inserted at least once in a newspaper of
countywide circulation and at least five calendar days before the final
date of submitting bids. Such notices shall include a general description
of the commodities or contractual services to be purchased or personal
property to be sold and shall state where all blanks and specifications may
be obtained and the time and place for the opening of bids. The county
purchasing agent may also solicit sealed bids by sending requests by mail
to prospective suppliers and by posting notices on a public bulletin board
in his office. If supplies, materials, equipment, and contractual services
can be obtained through, or are manufactured or produced by, persons confined
in institutions and facilities of the Illinois Department of Corrections, the
county purchasing agent is expressly required to solicit sealed bids from the
Illinois Department of Corrections for such supplies, materials, equipment, and
contractual services by sending requests for bids by mail to the Illinois
Department of Corrections. All purchases or sales of $10,000 or less may be
made in the
open market without publication in a newspaper as above provided, but
whenever practical shall be based on at least three competitive bids. All
sales of obsolete or unusable material shall be made to the highest
responsible bidder. Wherever the Board of Standardization hereinafter
provided for shall have prescribed standard specifications, bids on
purchases of supplies, materials and equipment shall be based on such
standard specifications. All purchases, orders or contracts shall be
awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, taking into consideration the
qualities of the articles supplied, their conformity with the
specifications, their suitability to the requirements of the county and the
delivery terms. All bids may be rejected and new bids solicited if the
public interest may be served thereby. In all cases where the amount of the
expenditure, or sales price of obsolete and unusable equipment, exceeds
$10,000, the Board of Commissioners shall not approve any purchase or order
or contract or sale except on the recommendation of the county purchasing
agent unless the recommendation of the county purchasing agent and the
reasons for not accepting his recommendation are spread at large on the
published records of the Board of Commissioners. Each bid, with the name of
the bidder, shall be entered on a record, which record with the successful
bid indicated thereon shall, after the award of the purchase or order or
contract, be open to public inspection. A copy of all contracts shall be
filed with the County Comptroller and with the county purchasing agent.
Contracts which by their nature are not adapted to award by competitive
bidding, such as contracts for the services of individuals possessing a
high degree of professional skill where the ability or fitness of the
individual plays an important part, contracts for printing of Finance
Committee pamphlets, Comptroller's estimates, and departmental reports,
contracts for the printing or engraving of bonds, tax warrants and other
evidences of indebtedness, contracts for utility services such as water,
light, heat, telephone or telegraph, and contracts for the purchase of
magazines, books, periodicals and similar articles of an educational or
instructional nature, and the binding of such magazines, books,
periodicals, pamphlets, reports and similar articles shall not be subject
to the competitive bidding requirements of this Section. The purchasing
agent is expressly authorized to procure from any federal, state or local
governmental unit or agency thereof such surplus materials, supplies,
commodities or equipment as may be made available through the operation of
any legislation heretofore or hereafter enacted without conforming to the
competitive bidding requirements of this Section. Regular employment
contracts in the county service, whether with respect to the classified
service or otherwise, shall not be subject to the provisions of this
Section nor shall this Section be applicable to the granting or issuance
pursuant to powers conferred by laws, ordinances or resolutions, of
franchises, licenses, permits or other authorizations by the county board,
or by departments, offices, institutions, boards, commissions, agencies or
other instrumentalities of the county, nor to contracts or transactions,
other than the sale or lease of personal property, pursuant to which the
county is the recipient of money.
The provisions of this Section are subject to any contrary provision
contained in "An Act concerning the use of Illinois mined coal in certain
plants and institutions", filed July 13, 1937, as heretofore or hereafter
amended.
(Source: P.A. 89-89, eff. 6-30-95.)
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