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<br />15 <br />216348v2 <br /> <br />(1) the quality of the vendor's or contractor's performance on previous projects; <br />(2) the timeliness of the vendor's or contractor's performance on previous projects; <br />(3) the level of customer satisfaction with the vendor's or contractor's performance on <br />previous projects; <br />(4) the vendor's or contractor's record of performing previous projects on budget and ability <br />to minimize cost overruns; <br />(5) the vendor's or contractor's ability to minimize change orders; <br />(6) the vendor's or contractor's ability to prepare appropriate project plans; <br />(7) the vendor's or contractors technical capacities; <br />(8) the individual qualifications of the contractor's key personnel; or <br />(9) the vendor's or contractor's ability to assess and minimize risks. <br /> <br />"Performance on previous projects" does not include the exercise or assertion of a person's legal <br />rights. <br /> <br />The solicitation document must state the relative weight of price and other selection criteria. The <br />award must be made to the vendor or contractor offering the best value applying the weighted <br />selection criteria. If an interview of the vendor’s or contractor’s personnel is one of the selection <br />criteria, the relative weight of the interview must be stated in the solicitation document and applied <br />accordingly. <br /> <br />Notice of Solicitation of Bids <br /> <br />The notice that bids are being solicited must be published once in the City’s official newspaper at <br />least ten days before the last day for the submission of bids. As an alternative to publishing the notice <br />in a newspaper, a city may put the bid notice on its website or in a recognized industry trade journal if <br />certain steps (described below) are followed. Additional public notice and hearing requirements for <br />public improvements ordered and specially assessed are provided in Minn. Stat. Chapter 429. <br /> <br />Alternative Dissemination of Bids and Requests for Proposals <br /> <br />As an alternative to publishing them in a newspaper, a city may post solicitations of bids, requests for <br />information or requests for proposals by using a website or recognized industry trade journals. Printed <br />and digital publications and websites that contain building and construction news of interest to <br />contractors in Minnesota or that publish project advertisements or bids for review by contractors or <br />potential bidders in the regular course of business are “recognized industry trade journals.” The City <br />must simultaneously publish, either in minutes or separately in a notice published in the official <br />newspaper, a description of all solicitations or requests so distributed, along with the means by which <br />the publication occurred. The publication by alternative means must be in substantially the same <br />format and for the same period of time as a publication in a qualified newspaper. <br /> <br />For the first six months after the political subdivision designates an alternative means of publication, it <br />must continue to publish solicitations of bids, requests for information, and requests for proposals in <br />the official newspaper in addition to the alternative method. The publication in the official newspaper <br />must indicate where to find the designated alternative methods. <br /> <br />If, in the normal course of its business, a qualified newspaper maintains a website, then as a <br />condition of accepting and publishing public notices, the newspaper must agree to post all the notices <br />on its website during the notice’s full publication period.