NOTICE TO BIDDERS
 
 
The Tippah County Board of Supervisors will receive un-priced solicitations until 5pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at the Chancery Clerk’s Office at 101 E. Spring Street, Ripley, MS 38663 or by electronic submission at www.centralbidding.com.   Submissions will be evaluated and vendors submitting acceptable offers will be invited to submit priced bids (via email) through a Reverse Auction.  Reverse Auction bids can be submitted at www.centralbidding.com.  For any questions relating to the Reverse Auction process or assistance with registration, please contact Central Bidding at 1-225-810-4814.
 
 Bidding will be held by Reverse Auction on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 from at 10am to 11am. The county reserves the right to utilize “anti-sniping” for reverse auctions.  Anti-sniping is a tool that automatically extends the bid time for a reverse auction by fifteen (15) minutes if a vendor places a bid in the final five (5) minutes of the reverse auction.  The anti-sniping effect will auto extend the reverse auction bid time any time a bid is placed in the last five (5) minutes of the reverse auction and can auto extend the reverse auction multiple times until the bidding on the reverse auction ends.
 
Contracts will be accepted to the lowest and best bidders for the purchase of supplies and equipment required for public works and public buildings through June 30, 2019.  Bidders shall bid the price at which the Board of Supervisors if it elects and the Board not being required to purchase any specific amount of any such article, supplies, equipment or materials.  Materials need to be priced by the ton, yardage and/or gallon.
 
The list of supplies to be purchased being, as follows, to wit:
 
(1)        Hauling of slag, washed gravel and crushed stone (limestone), Chirt (gravel)
(2)        Hauling of riprap and clay gravel from source of supply to designated stock piles in each
of the County shops of Tippah County, Mississippi
 
(3)        Crushed stone (limestone) # 7
 
(4)        Crushed stone (limestone) #5
 
(5)        Crushed stone (limestone) #57
 
(6)        Asphalt and necessary ingredients (cold mix) for patching and repairing of roads
 
(7)        CRS2 Liquid Asphalt in accordance with CPI as reflected in MDOT monthly publication
 
 
Tippah County Board of Supervisors reserves the right to reject any and all bids submitted and to waive formalities.  The right is reserved if two bids are identical, to award a portion of the contract to more than one bidder.  The Board may also select two bidders if both bids are the lowest and best bids although not identical.  The Board further reserves the right, if it elects to do so, to advertise and award new contracts for any portion of the materials and supplies listed above at the end of any three-month period, and if such new contract is made, it will supersede the contract for those particular items awarded as a result of this advertisement. 
 
 
 
                                                                        /s/Jimmy Gunn
                                                                        _______________________________________
                                                                       
                                                                        Jimmy Gunn, President
                                                                        Tippah County Board of Supervisors
 
 
ATTEST:
 
/s/ Mike Long
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Mike Long, Clerk
Tippah County Board of Supervisors