Protecting Your Rights in the Bidding Process
You just received the bid results and you were second low bidder. Or were you? Did the apparent low bidder not meet all of the bid requirements? You likely will only have hours to protest the award in California. Act quickly and contact Herrig & Vogt, LLP.
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You might have lost a bid because you did not have the lowest bid. But if you lost because the lowest bidder did not address all the requirements, act quickly. Contact a lawyer who knows the construction business.
- Only hours for a bid protest: A bid protest must be submitted within the specific time constraints, typically within hours (48 hrs., 72 hrs. etc) after the winning bid was announced. Because our lawyers are experienced in construction as well as construction law, we can help you examine the bid and find missed requirements.
- Failure to address addenda: When the public project sent out addenda to the original bid request, did the low bidder acknowledge the addenda and address them in the bid?
- DBE requirements: Did the low bidder meet all the DBE (disadvantaged business entity) requirements? Were the low bidder's good faith efforts merely pro forma?
- Material omissions: Did the low bidder fail to address all the requirements for the project? Material omissions may artificially cause a low bid that is later amended when it is too late to re-bid the project.
In the construction business, details matter. Our construction law attorneys understand that at the Herrig & Vogt law firm. We represent construction contractors and subcontractors throughout California and in Washington from our offices in Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, Kennewick and Redmond.
