SB 31 — Political Subdivisions/Local Bidders Notice.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA SESSION 2021 S 21 SENATE BILL 31 State and Local Government Committee Substitute Adopted 2/17/21 Short Title:

Senators Johnson, Proctor, and Craven (Primary Sponsors).

Rules and Operations of the Senate February 2, 2021 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT PROVIDING THAT POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE STATE SHALL NOTIFY PERSONS OR BUSINESSES WITHIN THEIR JURISDICTIONAL LIMITS BY REGULAR OR ELECTRONIC MAIL OF WORK REQUIRING AN ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE OF $50,000 OR MORE BEING LET FOR BID BY THE POLITICAL SUBDIVISION.

… (b1)(b) NotificationAdvertisement Requirementsand forLetting Certainof ContractsContracts. for Political Subdivisions.

– InWhere additionthe to any other notice or publication required by law, where a contract is to be let by a politicalboard subdivision of the State for construction or repairgoverning workbody requiringof the estimatedState expendituresgovernment of public money in an amount equal to or more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000),orforpurchaseofapparatus,supplies,materials,orequipment,requiringtheestimated expenditures of publica moneyState ininstitution, an amount equal to or more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), proposals shall be invited by notificationadvertisement sentin by regular or electronic mail to persons or businesses with a physicalnewspaper addresshaving locatedgeneral withincirculation thein jurisdictional boundaries of the politicalState subdivision that have requested notices from the political subdivision of workNorth beingCarolina. bid subject to this notification requirement.

TheWhere notificationthe requiredcontract byis thisto subsection shall be (i)let sentby toa thepolitical mailingsubdivision address or electronic address of the personState, orproposals business provided to the political subdivision for this purpose, (ii) sent at a time where at least seven full days shall lapsebe betweeninvited theby dateboth on which the notice is sent and the date of the openingfollowing: of bids, and (iii) contain the same information required of an advertisement as provided under subsection (b) of this section.

A(i) politicaladvertisement subdivisionin shalla benewspaper consideredhaving general circulation in the political subdivisionorbyelectronicmeans,orboth.both,and(ii)notificationsentbyregularorelectronic mail to havepersons metor businesses located within the notificationjurisdictional obligationboundaries of thisthe subsectionpolitical ifsubdivision that have requested notices from the political subdivision canfor providethe documentationtype of good-faithwork effortsbeing tobid meetif suchthe notificationestimated requirement.expenditure of the work is fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more.

A decision to advertise or send notifications solely by electronic means, whether for particular contracts or generally for all contracts that are subject to this Article, shall be approved by the governing board of the political subdivision of the State at a regular meeting of the board.

The advertisements for bidders and notification required bythis section shall appear at a time where at least seven full days shall lapse between the date on which the notice appears in a newspaperor is sent and thedate of theopening of bids.

Theadvertisement andnotification shall:

(i) state the time and place where plans and specifications of proposed work or a complete description of the apparatus, supplies, materials, or equipment may be had;

(ii) state the time and place for opening of the proposals;

and (iii) reserve to the board or governing body the right to reject any or all proposals.

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