Award of Contract 1

I. A Procuring Entity (PE), in an effort to identify a bidder to provide the service of repairing and maintaining the AC system in the Company’s Fleet of buses, initiated several procurement proceedings which were subsequently cancelled;

II. The PE states that the current procurement proceeding has brought the bidders bid approximately 60% higher than the comparable estimate. Clarification on the bid price was sought from the bidder; III. The PE now seeks guidance on how to proceed.