(1) Any person desiring to bid on any contract for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of roads, bridges, and their appurtenances to be let by the department shall request an authorization to bid from the department at the offices of the department in Lincoln, Nebraska, or at such other location as designated by the department not later than 5 p.m. of the day before the letting of the contract.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 39-1353

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Maintenance: means the act, operation, or continuous process of repair, reconstruction, or preservation of the whole or any part of any highway, including surface, shoulders, roadsides, traffic control devices, structures, waterways, and drainage facilities, for the purpose of keeping it at or near or improving upon its original standard of usefulness and safety. See Nebraska Statutes 39-101
  • Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801

(2) Such authorization shall be issued only to those persons previously qualified by the department and bids shall be accepted only from such qualified persons. This subsection shall not apply to any contract granted an exemption from prequalification requirements pursuant to subsection (2) of section 39-1351.

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