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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 12 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA (1988) BY AMENDING SECTION 12-250(a) THEREOF PERTAINING TO WITHDRAWAL OF BID DUE TO ERROR. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virgima: 1. That Section 12-250(a) of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia (1988) be amended and reordained to read as follows: Sec. 12-250. Withdrawal of bid due to error. (a) A bidder for a public construction contract, other than a contract for construction or maintenance of public highways, may withdraw his bid from consideration if the price bid was substantially lower than the other bids due solely to a price therein, provided the bid was submitted in good faith, and the mistake was a clerical mistake as opposed to a judgment mistake, and was actually due to an unintentional arithmetic error or an unintentional omission of a quantity of work, labor or material made directly in the compilation of a bid, which unintentional arithmetic error or unintentional omission can be clearly shown by objective evidence drawn from an inspection of original work papers, documents and materials used in the preparation of the bid sought to be withdrawn. If a bid contains both clerical and judgment mistakes, a bidder may withdraw his bid from consideration if the price bid would have been substantially lower than the other bids due solely to the clerical mistake, that was an unintentional arithmetic error or an unintentional omission of a quantity of work, labor or material made directly in the compilation of a bid which shall be clearly shown by objective evidence drawn from inspection of original work papers, documents and materials used in the preparation of the bid sought to be withdrawn. 2. That this ordinance shall take effect on July 1, 1999. Adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, at a meeting held on June 22, 1999. Teste: City Clerk