26.9 - AWARD OF CONTRACT.
26.9 AWARD OF CONTRACT.
The contract for the public improvement must be awarded to the
lowest responsive, responsible bidder. However, contracts relating
to public utilities or extensions or improvements thereof, as
described in sections 384.80 through 384.94, may be awarded by the
city as it deems to be in the best interests of the city. This
section shall not be construed to prohibit a governmental entity in
the award of a contract for a public improvement or a governing body
of a city utility from providing, in the award of a contract for a
public improvement, an enhancement of payments upon early completion
of the public improvement if the availability of the enhancement
payments is included in the notice to bidders, the enhancement
payments are competitively neutral to potential bidders, the
enhancement payments are considered as a separate item in the public
hearing on the award of contract, and the total value of the
enhancement payments does not exceed ten percent of the value of the
contract. Section History: Recent Form
2006 Acts, ch 1017, §9, 42, 43
Referred to in § 26.3, 26.10, 26.14, 314.1