Meccon, Inc. v. University of Akron

{¶ 1} The question before us is whether bid-preparation costs may be recovered as damages by a bidder who establishes that its bid on a public-improvement project was wrongfully rejected because the public authority awarding that contract failed to comply with state competitive-bidding laws. We conclude that reasonable bid-preparation costs may be recovered if the rejected bidder promptly sought but was denied a timely injunction to suspend the public-improvement project pending resolution of the dispute and a court later determines that the bidder was wrongfully rejected by the public…