RCW 47.28.050
Call for bids.
Except as may be provided by rules and regulations adopted under RCW 47.28.030 as now or hereafter amended the department of transportation shall publish a call for bids for the construction of the highway according to the maps, plans, and specifications, once a week for at least two consecutive weeks, next preceding the day set for receiving and opening the bids, in not less than one trade paper of general circulation in the state. The call shall state the time, place, and date for receiving and opening the bids, give a brief description of the location and extent of the work, and contain such special provisions or specifications as the department deems necessary. When necessary to implement chapter 39.19 RCW and the rules adopted to implement that chapter, the department shall include in its call for bids provisions or specifications requiring bidders to comply with chapter 39.19 RCW and the rules adopted to implement it: PROVIDED, That when the estimated cost of any contract to be awarded is less than fifty thousand dollars, the call for bids need only be published in at least one paper of general circulation in the county where the major part of the work is to be performed: PROVIDED FURTHER, That when the estimated cost of a contract to be awarded is seven thousand five hundred dollars or less, including the cost of materials, supplies, engineering, and equipment, the department of transportation need not publish a call for bids: PROVIDED FURTHER, That after a bid call has been advertised for two consecutive weeks it may be postponed and the bids opened one week later.
[ 1983 c 120 § 16; 1979 ex.s. c 69 § 1; 1977 c 65 § 1; 1973 c 116 § 2; 1969 ex.s. c 180 § 1; 1961 c 13 § 47.28.050. Prior: 1959 c 319 § 33; 1955 c 147 § 1; 1937 c 53 § 33; RRS § 6400-33.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Applicability—Severability—Conflict with federal requirements—1983 c 120: See RCW 39.19.910 and 39.19.920.
Office of minority and women's business enterprises: Chapter 39.19 RCW.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation
Chapter 47.28 - Construction and Maintenance of Highways.
47.28.010 - Latitude in selecting route.
47.28.020 - Width of right-of-way.
47.28.025 - Description and plan of new or limited access highway—Recording.
47.28.035 - Cost of project, defined.
47.28.040 - Precontract preparation of maps, plans, and specifications—Filing.
47.28.060 - Copy of map, plans, etc.—Charge.
47.28.070 - Form of bid—Data required—Requirements—Refusal to furnish form—Appeal.
47.28.075 - Financial information not open to public inspection.
47.28.080 - Withdrawal of bids—New bids—Time fixed in call controls.
47.28.090 - Opening of bids and award of contract—Deposit.
47.28.100 - Failure or rejection of bidder.
47.28.110 - Sureties—Qualifications—Additional sureties.
47.28.120 - Actions for labor and materials—Limitation of action.
47.28.150 - Underpasses, overpasses constructed with federal funds—Maintenance cost apportionment.
47.28.241 - Alternative delivery of construction services—Definitions.