![]() ![]() Review of the Wayne-Pike bid revealed several defects which led to rejection of that bid and no subsequent action by Wayne-Pike. Following the reading of the bids, the townships, through the efforts of the staff attorney for Lower Paxton Township, began to review the bids in detail to ascertain if the bidders had complied with mandatory requirements of the invitation to bid. Upon bid opening, the townships determined that the three lowest bidders were, in succession, Wayne-Pike Sanitation Company (Wayne-Pike), York Waste Disposal, Inc. Representatives of both townships were to open the bids that evening to initially determine the amounts of each bid.Īs of the deadline, the townships received eight bids for the contract. Among the requirements of the invitation to bid was a provision that all bids be submitted by 4:00 p.m. The finalized invitation to bid was officially advertised in March 1993 and sent to interested bidders. Prior to a finalized drafting of the invitation to bid, the townships held two pre-bid conferences with potential bidders to discuss the requirements for bids. In March 1993, the townships agreed to jointly seek bids for a waste hauling and recycling contract for a five-year period to commence July 2, 1993. ![]() For the following reasons, the trial court's order is reversed. The broad question raised for this Court's review is whether the trial court erred in ruling that the townships improperly rejected a disappointed bidder's public contract bid for failure to comply with bidding requirements *479 set forth by the townships. Lower Paxton Township, West Hanover Township, members of the townships' Boards of Supervisors, and Waste Management of Central Pennsylvania, a division of Waste Management of Pennsylvania, Inc., (Waste Management) (collectively Appellants) appeal from the Augfinal order of the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas denying Appellants' post-trial motions and confirming the trial court's Jdecree nisi permanently enjoining the townships from executing a five-year waste hauling contract entered into with Waste Management. *478 Frank Michael D'Amore, for appellants.īefore DOYLE and SMITH, JJ., and KELTON, Senior Judge. ![]() Shatto, Jr., and Waste Management of PA, Camp Hill, Appellants. Koch, Dutch Lentz, Donald Alfano, West Hanover Township, Donald L. ![]()
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