New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 6A - EDUCATION
Chapter 27 - STUDENT TRANSPORTATION
Subchapter 9 - CONTRACTING FOR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
Section 6A:27-9.8 - Receiving and opening bids

(a) Unless the proposals are to be received at a district board of education meeting, a committee, an officer, or an employee of the district board of education shall be designated to receive the proposals at a time and place designated by the district board of education and stated in the bid advertisement. At the time and place so designated and advertised, the district board of education or board-designated committee, officer, or employee shall receive the proposals and proceed to unseal them and publicly announce their contents. No proposals shall be opened before the time designated in the advertisement and none shall be received thereafter.

(b) The district board of education may reject any or all bids.

(c) After bids are opened, a district board of education shall not impose new conditions and bidders shall not be allowed to change bids or make oral bids. Specifications shall not be modified after bids have been received and the contract shall not be awarded to one of the bidders upon revised specifications.

(d) Bulletins issued to explain minor details of specifications and to make minor changes shall not invalidate the award of a contract to the successful bidder when it appears that all such bulletins were received by all prospective and actual bidders in advance of the submission of bids. The officer of the district board of education responsible for distributing specifications to prospective bidders shall keep a list of their names and addresses so that bulletins can be issued to them, if necessary. If a district board of education finds it has made in good faith a mistake in its specifications that cannot be corrected, bids shall be rejected and re-advertised.