competitive bidding -- When advertisements not required.
The contracts for the erection of new school buildings, additions and repairs to old
buildings, except additions or repairs not exceeding seven thousand five hundred dollars
($7,500), shall be made by the board of education with the lowest and best responsible
bidder complying with the terms of the letting, after advertisement for competitive bids
pursuant to KRS Chapter 424, but the board may reject any or all bids. All necessary
specifications and drawings shall be prepared for all such work. The board shall advertise
for bids on all supplies and equipment that it desires to purchase, except where the
amount of the purchase does not exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500),
and shall accept the bid of the lowest and best bidder taking into consideration the price
and the reciprocal preference for resident bidders under KRS 45A.494, but the board may
reject any and all bids.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 162, sec. 20, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. IV, sec. 252, effective July 13, 1990. -- Reenacted 1980
Ky. Acts ch. 250, sec. 1, effective April 9, 1980.
History for former KRS 162.070: Repealed 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 106, effective
January 1, 1980. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 58, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1978. --
Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 185, sec. 1. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec.
148. -- Amended 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 172, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208,
sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4399-48.
Notes of Decisions
Dance v. Bd. of Educ. of City of M'boro, 176 S.W.2d 90 (Ky. Ct. App. 1943).
· cites it 2× “The board is forbidden by KRS 162.070 from contracting for the erection of a new school, or making repairs or additions to a building in excess of $150, except through competitive bidding after due advertisement.”
Fosson v. Fiscal Court of Boyd Cnty., 369 S.W.2d 108 (Ky. Ct. App. 1963).
· cites it 2× “On this appeal, appellants contend KRS 162.070 controls fiscal courts and makes it mandatory that contracts, such as the one in controversy, be let to the lowest and best responsible bidder complying with the terms of the letting, when engaging in a school building project under…”
Baughn v. Gorrell Riley, 224 S.W.2d 436 (Ky. Ct. App. 1949).
“Obviously it has the effect of amending the provisions of KRS 162.070, which provides that contracts for the erection of school buildings shall be awarded by boards of education to the lowest and best responsible bidder.”
Goin v. Bd. of Educ., City of Frankfort, 183 S.W.2d 819 (Ky. Ct. App. 1944).
“that the' two minutes entered on the Board’s records amount *649 to a ratification of the alleged assurance by the architect to the contractor that the Board would pay for this work.”
Bd. of Educ. of Floyd Cnty. v. Hall, 353 S.W.2d 194 (Ky. Ct. App. 1962).
· cites it 3× “070, which has not been amended by specific reference since 1954, provides, with certain exceptions applicable only in Jefferson County, that a school board must advertise for competitive bidding any purchase of supplies and equipment in excess of $250 and any contract for new…”
Taylor v. Parker, 302 S.W.2d 125 (Ky. Ct. App. 1957).
· cites it 2× “The statute, KRS 162.070, requires that a school board “shall advertise for bids” on the purchase of supplies or equipment costing more than $250.”
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