C-59.001 - Act respecting the Conseil métropolitain de transport en commun

Section 34 Disposition versions

1990-10-25

34. The council and the Communauté urbaine de Montréal or the council and a transit corporation may, without being required to call for tenders, enter into any contract with one another.

The council may also, without being required to call for tenders, enter into any professional services contract of whatever amount for the conduct of studies, analyses or surveys, and any other contract involving an expenditure of $5 000 or less.

The council shall not enter into any contract involving an expenditure of more than $5 000 and less than $50 000 unless at least two persons have been invited in writing to tender. In the case of a contract involving an expenditure of $50 000 or more, the council must make a call for public tenders in a newspaper having general circulation in its territory. The time allowed for the receipt of tenders must not be less than eight days.

All tenders submitted under the third paragraph must be opened publicly in the presence of at least two witnesses, on the day and at the time and place mentioned in the call for tenders. The tenderers may be present at the opening of the tenders. The names of the tenderers and their respective prices must be stated aloud as the tenders are opened.

1990, c. 41, s. 34.