§ 61-116. Disclosure of terms of bids - Public agency engineering estimates.

A.  Any disclosure by an employee of a public agency of the terms of a bid submitted in response to a bid notice issued by a public agency in advance of the time set for opening of all bids so submitted shall be unlawful.  It shall also be unlawful for any person to solicit, possess or receive information which is to be contained in a bid notice of a public agency, for use in preparing a bid, in advance of the date on which said bid notice is to be made equally and uniformly known to all prospective bidders and the public, and it shall further be unlawful for any employee of a public agency to withhold or impede the distribution of said information after notice of the bid has been given, unless the solicitation of bids has been withdrawn or the particular information in question has been deleted or replaced through alteration of the bid notice and said withdrawal or alteration has been made equally and uniformly known.  Any violation of this subsection shall be a felony and shall render the proceedings void and require solicitation and award anew.

B.  The estimate of the actual cost of the project made by the public agency, construction manager or consultant for the agency shall not be considered confidential and shall be available to the public in accordance with the Oklahoma Open Records Act.

Added by Laws 1974, c. 298, § 16, operative Aug. 1, 1974.  Amended by Laws 1976, c. 79, § 1, emerg. eff. May 3, 1976; Laws 1992, c. 239, § 4, emerg. eff. May 19, 1992; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 517, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, c. 341, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2000, c. 66, § 1, emerg. eff. April 14, 2000; Laws 2002, c. 294, § 19, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2006, c. 271, § 21, eff. July 1, 2006.

Note

NOTE:  Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 517 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.