Lance Investigation Service, Inc. v. City of New York

The statutory provisions controlling at the time this contract was let, in 1971, required that public works contracts involving the expenditure of more than $2,500 be awarded only after appropriate competitive bidding (City Charter, § 343, subd a; General Municipal Law, § 103, subd 1). As a general rule, failure to comply with these statutory requirements for competitive bidding renders a public works contract in excess of $2,500 invalid (Prosper Contr. Corp. v Board of Educ., 73 Misc 2d 280, 282, affd 43 AD2d 823), and precludes any recovery by the vendor either on the basis of the contract…