Premier Electric Installation Co. v. Board of Education

The petitioner (herein called Premier), in this article 78 proceeding against a Board of Education and the successful bidder (herein called Pansco) on a contract for electrical work in a new school, claims to have been the low bidder and it seeks a review of the board’s action in awarding the contract to Pansco.

Interestingly both Premier and Pansco submitted identical base bids of $309,000. In addition to the base bid here were 22 alternates to be bid upon. On one alternate (No. 15) Pansco, by unilateral error, bid a deduction of $2,900 instead of an addition of $2,900. The error was…