If required by the department of administrative services, a bid or proposal for a term contract for printing goods and services, including final printed product, shall be accompanied by a bond to the state, in a sum specified in the invitation to bid or request for proposals, executed by the offeror, with either one corporate or two personal sureties, satisfactory to the department, conditioned for the performance of the contract awarded the offeror, and for the payment to the state, by the offeror, as liquidated damages, of any excess of cost over the bid or proposal of such offeror, which the state may be obliged to pay for such printing goods and services by reason of the failure of the offeror to complete the contract. A bid or proposal unaccompanied by such bond shall not be considered, and this bond shall be void if no contract is awarded to the offeror.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 125.38

  • Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Services: means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a person, not involving the delivery of a specific end product other than a report which, if provided, is merely incidental to the required performance. See Ohio Code 125.01
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59