Bid Tabulation for Rebid - Isolated Drainage and Roadway Improvements

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This is a request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. Please acknowledge receipt of this message.

Records requested:
Please send the final and compiled bid tabulation (Bid Tally), including all quantities and unit pricing for each bidder, for Rebid - Isolated Drainage and Roadway Improvements that was submitted on 12/1/20.

Below is an example of the format we are looking for that the engineer usually creates at the completion of the bid:

| | BIDDER 1 | BIDDER 2 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Item | Description | QNT | UNIT | AMOUNT | UNIT | AMOUNT |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |

Please send all documents electronically.

Thanks,
PPA

Jessica Larney, Brick Township

Please find the available documents pertaining to your below OPRA request in the link below:

https://bricktwp-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g...

As per my prior responses to your OPRA requests for bid tabulations: We do not have a total compiled bid tabulations, our engineering companies do not provide us a copy of that. And under the OPRA statue, we are not required to create a new document for an OPRA request. We only have to provide existing government records.
The New Jersey Government Records Council states that "valid OPRA (Open Public Records Act) request seeks specific, existing, identifiable government records. Valid OPRA requests do not ask questions, do not seek information, and do not require a custodian to conduct any research or create a new record. When a request is "complex" because it fails to specifically identify the documents sought, then that request is not "encompassed" by OPRA. See New Jersey Builders Association v. New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing, 390 N.J.Super. 166, 180 (App. Div. 2007). A proper request under OPRA must identify with reasonable clarity those documents that are desired, and a party cannot satisfy this requirement by simply requesting all of an agency's documents. OPRA is to "search" for a specific, identifiable, existing government record. It is not meant to "research" to see if a record exists. Research should be done prior to completing an OPRA request.

Sincerely,

Jessica L. Larney, RMC/CMR
Assistant Municipal Clerk
Deputy Registrar of Vital Statistics

Office of the Township Clerk/Vital Statistics
401 Chambers Bridge Road
Brick, New Jersey 08723
732-262-1003

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