Kerr v. Gilmore

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• requiring quality and quantity of work be stated with as much certainty and definiteness as may be practicable
• “any application of the bidding laws which would give the awarding authority ‘an opportunity to exercise favoritism in awarding contracts should be avoided’ ”
• specifications stating the thickness of the layer of pavement, but not the composition or manner of laying the wearing surface, violate bidding ordinance
• \Every bidder must be able to know what materials are to be furnished and what work is to be performed in order to comply with the contract.\
• \To allow a bidder to furnish his own specifications for any material part of the contract in question would destroy genuine and fair competition and be subversive of the public interests.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).