Johnson v. City of Jordan

OPINION

FORSBERG, Judge.

This is an appeal from denial of a writ of mandamus directing respondent City of Jordan to execute a contract for garbage collection services. Appellant Mark Johnson, doing business as Mark’s Sanitation [hereafter, Mark, or Mark’s], submitted the low bid. Although the bid was not accompanied by a bid bond, as required, the City Council passed a resolution awarding the contract to Mark’s, subject to submission of a bid bond, which Mark’s submitted the following day. Before a written contract was executed, the Council reconsidered, citing the lack of a timely bid bond,…