Carney v. Merrick

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• explaining that a state competitive bidding statute “does not vest in a disappointed low bidder a cause of action” but rather “gives to the public, in a taxpayer's suit the right to demand that the lowest responsible bidder be awarded the contract”
• allowing a low bidder to seek damages for violation of the statute would make the public body pay the difference between the lowest bid and the contract bid, as well as the profit that the lowest responsible bidder would have made but for the violation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).