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O.C.G.A. § 32-4-68 — Award of contract to lowest reliable bidder; procedure upon rejection of bids | Georgia Code

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TITLE 32 HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, AND FERRIES

Section 4. State, County, and Municipal Road Systems, 32-4-1 through 32-4-123.

ARTICLE 3 COUNTY ROAD SYSTEMS

32-4-68. Award of contract to lowest reliable bidder; procedure upon rejection of bids.

Where a contract has been let for bid, the county, by resolution entered in its minutes, shall award the contract to the lowest reliable bidder, provided that the county shall have the right to reject any and all such bids whether such right is reserved in the public notice or not and, in such case, may readvertise, perform the work itself, or abandon the project.

(Ga. L. 1922, p. 37, § 1c; Code 1933, § 95-1105; Code 1933, § 95A-824, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Faulk v. Twiggs County, 269 Ga. 809, 504 S.E.2d 668 (1998).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Right of public authorities to reject all bids for public work or contract, 52 A.L.R.4th 186.

Public contracts: low bidder's monetary relief against state or local agency for nonaward of contract, 65 A.L.R.4th 93.

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