Andover Consultants, Inc. v. City of Lawrence

On February 2, 1979, the city of Lawrence advertised for sealed bids on a contract for the preparation of tax maps for its board of assessors. G. L. c. 40, § 4, thirteenth par. The project appears to have involved certain required work, including “ground control and photography, manuscript preparation from photography, aero triangulation, block bridging, calculations, research, platting of boundaries, final drafting of maps, data card production and other reproduction,” as well as optional work involving preparation of “Massachusetts coordinates for each lot, *157[location of] building…