Post by raihan110 on May 19, 2024 4:57:32 GMT -5
We received a request the other day from a company outside of Illinois and sent them a standard denial letter based on this exemption. They ultimately wrote to the State of Illinois arguing that we should release this information because they wanted to submit bids as a subcontractor and this information would encourage more competitive bids. There are several problems with this. First and foremost we believe we are exempt from publishing it although the final decision now rests with the state. Next if the state decides we have to release this information it will become a Freedom of Information Act request for business purposes and the company failed to mention it and violated the law by not doing so.
But if the state decides that information and the company ends up requesting that information correctly, we'll have 30 days to respond because it's a commercial purpose request, which means they Costa Rica Phone Number will receive that information after the bid is opened for them. It is useless for the purpose. Finally the project does not involve work that requires the type of services they provide. It's like bidding on a road repaving project and an excavator supplier wants to get a list of bidders to give them a price for new equipment. The job just doesn't have a specific pay package. So I'm not even sure how providing a list of bidders to a heavy equipment sales company for a specific project without special items would help lower our costs.
The end result is a waste of everyone's time. At my previous place I ended up not even being able to send out lists because we had proposal materials online so we didn't know who downloaded them. If we continue to have this problem we may end up choosing to do the same thing or just not keep the list. But I'd like to know how other agencies handle these requests; other agencies believe that releasing the list will affect bids and whether other states require agencies to release information before bids are opened. Sharing the relevant content data of the original post comes into play. Data comes into play. Making Connections Modernizing RecruitingLeave a Comment You must be logged in to post a comment.
But if the state decides that information and the company ends up requesting that information correctly, we'll have 30 days to respond because it's a commercial purpose request, which means they Costa Rica Phone Number will receive that information after the bid is opened for them. It is useless for the purpose. Finally the project does not involve work that requires the type of services they provide. It's like bidding on a road repaving project and an excavator supplier wants to get a list of bidders to give them a price for new equipment. The job just doesn't have a specific pay package. So I'm not even sure how providing a list of bidders to a heavy equipment sales company for a specific project without special items would help lower our costs.
The end result is a waste of everyone's time. At my previous place I ended up not even being able to send out lists because we had proposal materials online so we didn't know who downloaded them. If we continue to have this problem we may end up choosing to do the same thing or just not keep the list. But I'd like to know how other agencies handle these requests; other agencies believe that releasing the list will affect bids and whether other states require agencies to release information before bids are opened. Sharing the relevant content data of the original post comes into play. Data comes into play. Making Connections Modernizing RecruitingLeave a Comment You must be logged in to post a comment.