Contractor group plans legal action against NYS.The region's largest construction trade association announced that it is considering legal action to block a project letting by the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection for repair work to the Croton croton, in botany croton (krō`tən), any of several species of Codiaeum that are widely cultivated as ornamentals and houseplants. The most popular species is C. Water Tunnel in Westchester County. The group considering the action, the Construction Industry Council of Westchester and Hudson Valley (CIC CIC circulating immune complexes. CIC Circulating immune complexes. See Immune complexes. ), claims the city will violate the long-standing General Municipal Law requiring public agencies to award work to the lowest responsible bidder if the department gives the contract to a joint venture that submitted a higher bid price for the work. According to the new city provision, the contract apparently shall be awarded to the third 1owest bidder under a recently adopted 10 percent bid preference rule giving the Mayor's office the discretion to award a contract to a minority business enterprise (MBE MBE (in Britain) Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE n abbr (BRIT) (= Member of the Order of the British Empire) → tÃtulo ceremonial MBE n abbr (Brit) (= ), a woman's business enterprise (WBE WBE Women's Business Enterprise WBE Women-owned Business Enterprises WBE Woman-owned Business Enterprise WBE Web-Based Education WBE Welch-Bound-Equality WBE World Business Exchange WBE Warner Bros. ), or a certified joint venture if its bid is no more than 10 percent higher than the lowest bid. The CIC also announced that its Board of Directors unanimously approved a resolution Jan. 6 that authorizes CIC to act as plaintiff, along with the Halmar Corporation of Mount Vernon, New York For other places with the same name, see Mount Vernon (disambiguation). Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York. It is just north of New York City's Bronx border. , in any legal action that may arise from the disputed DEP DEP Deposit DEP Deputy DEP Department of Environmental Protection DEP Dependent DEP Departure DEP Depot DEP Deposition DEP deployed (US DoD) DEP Data Execution Prevention (computer security) contract. The city agency said it planned to award the work to a minority-owned joint venture company, AFC/A&G Video Surveying. A&G Video Surveying is a WBE firm. Halmar, the apparent lowest competitive bidder on the project, submitted a bid of $2,358,225 for water tunnel repairs (Contract CR0-209). However, soon after the bid results were announced this past December, the Westchester-based contractor was informed that its bid would be rejected in favor of a higher bid that was submitted by AFC/A&G Video Surveying. At $2,486,000, the bid by AFC/A&G Video Surveying was the third lowest, behind Crescent Construction Corp., like Halmar, another non-minority-owned firm, Crescent's bid for the work was $239 million. The DEP aaion could cost taxpayers an additional $127,775 if the contract is awarded to AFC/A&G Video Surveying. |
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