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Local bidder questions Government Center access-control award during Effingham County meeting
Summary
A representative of Fieldworks Incorporated asked the Effingham County Board to reconsider an award for a Government Center access-control project, saying his company was the only local bidder; the board said procurement policy favors the lowest responsive bidder unless statutory or performance reasons justify deviation.
During public comment at the Effingham County Board meeting, Aaron Mason, identified as a representative of Fieldworks Incorporated and one of the bidders on the Government Center access-control project, asked whether the county would make further consideration for local bidders after committee review and award notice.
Mason said Fieldworks was the only local vendor that had bid on the project and inquired whether the board could give additional consideration to local representation. The chair replied that county policy requires awarding the contract to the lowest responsive bidder unless there is a specific statutory or documented reason to deviate, such as prior performance failures, and noted that because the board had acted at committee the award process would proceed unless the selected bidder could not complete the contract as bid.
No action to reopen or revisit the procurement award was recorded in the meeting transcript; the chair said the typical process would be to notify the awarded bidder and, if that bidder later could not honor the bid, then the county might reopen consideration.
