6-5-701
Section 6-5-701 Reliance upon specifications. A contractor is justified ordinarily in relying upon the specifications that are contained in the contract with an awarding authority. No contractor shall be held civilly liable for work performed on a highway, road, bridge, or street including repairs, construction, or maintenance on behalf of the awarding authority unless it is shown by a preponderance of the evidence that physical injury, property damage, or death is proximately caused by any of the following: (1) A failure by the contractor to follow the plans and specifications resulting in a dangerous condition. (2) The contractor's performance of the contract in compliance with the plans and specifications creates a condition that should have appeared, to a reasonably prudent contractor, to be a dangerous condition. (3) A latent defect which creates a dangerous condition that is the result of the work of the contractor. (Act 2012-225, p. 414, §2.)...
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6-5-702
Section 6-5-702 Compliance with contract documents. During the course of construction, a contractor who constructs, maintains, or repairs a highway, road, street, or bridge for the awarding authority is not liable to a claimant for personal injury, property damage, or death arising from the performance of such construction, maintenance, or repair, if, at the time of the personal injury, property damage, or death, the contractor was in compliance with contract documents material to the condition, including the traffic control plan, that was the proximate cause of the personal injury, property damage, or death unless following the plans and specifications would result in a dangerous condition that should have appeared to be defective to a reasonably prudent contractor or that the contractor should have known that following the plans and specifications could create a dangerous condition that caused the injury or death. (Act 2012-225, p. 414, §3.)...
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6-5-700
The date that the awarding authority notifies the contractor, in writing, that the awarding authority has assumed maintenance responsibilities for the roadway or 60 days after the contractor has notified, in writing, the awarding authority that the contractor's work on the project is completed, whichever is earlier. (3) CONTRACTOR. Any person or entity, and any subcontractor, director, officer, or employee of such a person or entity, that contracts with the State of Alabama, a county, or other local government to construct, repair, or maintain a highway, a road, a bridge, or a street. (4) DANGEROUS CONDITION. A condition that is not reasonably safe for the intended use of the roadway and is capable of causing a person physical injury or death under the anticipated use of the roadway. (5) SPECIFICATIONS. Specifications, plans, drawings, bid documents, or any other written or electronically stored requirements and details the contractor agrees to perform. (Act 2012-225, p. 414, §1.)...
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41-16-27
the Governor, except in cases where the awarding authority is a two-year or four-year college or university governed by a board. The awarding authority or requisitioning agency shall have the right to reject any bid if the price is deemed excessive or quality of product inferior. Awards are final only after approval of the purchasing agent. (b)(1) The awarding authority may award multiple purchase contracts resulting from a single invitation-to-bid where the specifications of the items of personal property or services intended to be purchased by a requisitioning agency or agencies are determined, in whole or in part, by technical compatibility and operational requirements. In order to make multiple awards under this provision, the awarding authority must include in the invitation-to-bid a notice that multiple awards may be made and the specific technical compatibility or operational requirements necessitating multiple awards. Multiple awards of purchase contracts with unique...
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6-5-703
Section 6-5-703 Notification of potentially dangerous conditions. If, prior to or during the course of construction, a contractor discovers or determines that following the plans and specifications could result in a potentially dangerous condition, then the contractor shall, with specificity of such condition, expressly notify the Chief Engineer of the Alabama Department of Transportation in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested. The Alabama Department of Transportation, or the awarding authority, shall respond to the specific condition raised within 14 days in writing as to its decision as to the appropriate response to the dangerous condition. The contractor shall not be liable for any claim relating to any decision made by the Alabama Department of Transportation or awarding authority as to the appropriate response, design decisions, or engineering decision, if any, to respond to the potentially dangerous condition identified. (Act 2012-225, p. 414, §4.)...
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39-2-12
Section 39-2-12 Partial and final payments of contractors by awarding authorities. (a) As used in this section the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows: (1) CONTRACTOR. Any natural person, partnership, company, firm, corporation, association, limited liability company, cooperative, or other legal entity licensed by the Alabama State Licensing Board for General Contractors. (2) NONRESIDENT CONTRACTOR. A contractor which is neither a. organized and existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, nor b. maintains its principal place of business in the State of Alabama. A nonresident contractor which has maintained a permanent branch office within the State of Alabama for at least five continuous years shall not thereafter be deemed to be a nonresident contractor so long as the contractor continues to maintain a branch office within Alabama. (3) RETAINAGE. That money belonging to the contractor which has been retained by the awarding authority conditioned on...
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6-5-705
Section 6-5-705 Dangerous conditions outside scope of project. The contractor shall bear no civil liability for any dangerous condition that is outside of the scope of the project or that is in excess of any requirement of the governing plans and specifications provided by the awarding authority. This section shall not apply to either of the following situations: (1) The contractor contracts to design in whole or in part the roadway or project or to provide professional engineering services as to the design of the roadway. (2) The contractor undertakes to provide services as to the roadway or project that are outside the scope of the project or that are in excess of any requirement of the governing plans and specifications. (Act 2012-225, p. 414, §6.)...
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22-6-7.1
Section 22-6-7.1 Procurement of prescription eyewear. Contracts for the procurement of prescription eyewear for recipients of the Alabama Medicaid Program which are competitively bid may be awarded to the bidder whose proposal is the most advantageous to the state for periods not to exceed three years taking into consideration cost factors, program stability factors, technical factors including understanding of program requirements, management plan, excellence of program design, key personnel, corporate or company resource and designated location, and other factors including financial condition and capability of the bidder, corporate experience and past performance and priority of the business to insure the contract awarded is the best for the purposes required. Each of these criteria shall be given relative weight value as designated in the invitation to bid. Responsiveness to the bid shall be scored for each designated criteria. If, for reasons cited above, the bid selected is not...
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39-1-1
Section 39-1-1 Bonds required of persons contracting for public works; commencement, etc., of actions upon bond by persons supplying labor, etc., to contractor; offer to accept judgment; notice of completion of project by contractor and final settlement; applicability. (a) Any person entering into a contract with an awarding authority in this state for the prosecution of any public works shall, before commencing the work, execute a performance bond, with penalty equal to 100 percent of the amount of the contract price. In addition, another bond, payable to the awarding authority letting the contract, shall be executed in an amount not less than 50 percent of the contract price, with the obligation that the contractor or contractors shall promptly make payments to all persons supplying labor, materials, or supplies for or in the prosecution of the work provided in the contract and for the payment of reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by successful claimants or plaintiffs in civil...
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39-2-6
Section 39-2-6 Award of contract; additional competitive bids; work done by force account; availability of plans, etc.; use of convict labor; assignment of contract; agreements, etc., among bidders; advance disclosure; life cycle costs. (a) The contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder, unless the awarding authority finds that all the bids are unreasonable or that it is not to the interest of the awarding authority to accept any of the bids. A responsible bidder is one who, among other qualities determined necessary for performance, is competent, experienced, and financially able to perform the contract. A responsive bidder is one who submits a bid that complies with the terms and conditions of the invitation for bids. Minor irregularities in the bid shall not defeat responsiveness. The bidder to whom the award is made shall be notified by telegram, confirmed facsimile, or letter at the earliest possible date. If the successful bidder fails or refuses to...
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