Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. State ex rel. Corporation Commission

OPALA, Chief Justice.

The dispositive issue is whether the mootness doctrine bars review of the Corporation Commission’s order which approves the terms of a proposed contract intended by the applicant (PSO) for entry with a state agency, when the actual bidding procedure later ended with the rejection of the Commission-approved contract and the acceptance of a third party’s bid and where the appellant had previously been declared legally ineligible to compete for the contract’s award. We answer in the affirmative.

The Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (Board) solicited bids…