Greenville council rescinds bid award for 911 call boxes and awards contract to next low bidder

The Greenville City Council voted to rescind an earlier bid award for 911 cellular call boxes and to award the purchase to the next low bidder meeting specifications.

Council considered rescinding the award to 911iNET of Phenix City, Alabama, for an amount not to exceed $3,300, and awarding the contract to Transportation Solutions & Lighting, Inc., of Boca Raton, Florida, for an amount not to exceed $3,499. Councilperson Lehman moved to rescind the original award and award the bid to the second-lowest bidder meeting specifications; Councilperson Johnson seconded. The motion was recorded as "unanimously adopted." No further discussion or rationale was recorded in the transcript.

The action changes the vendor and the listed not-to-exceed amount for the purchase of 911 cellular call boxes for the Public Safety Department; the transcript does not record the reason the original award was rescinded or any protest or vendor statements on the record.