2021/02/17 Council Agenda Packet

1.15 PROPRIETARY MATERIAL SUBMITTED/PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Any information contained with the bid that is proprietary must be clearly designated. Marking the entire bid as proprietary will be neither accepted nor honored. If a request is made to view a supplier's bid, the City of Everett will comply according to the Open Public Records Act, Chapter 42.56 RCW. If any information is marked as proprietary in the bid, such information will not be made available until the affected supplier has been given an opportunity to seek a court injunction against the requested disclosure. 1.16 RESPONSE PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF EVERETT All materials submitted in response to this request become the property of the City of Everett. Selection or rejection of a response does not affect this right. 1.17 NO OBLIGATION TO BUY The City of Everett reserves the right to refrain from contracting with any supplier. The release of this Invitation to Bid does not compel the City of Everett to purchase. The City of Everett reserves the right to reject any and all Bids. 1.18 COST OF PREPARING BIDS The City of Everett is not liable for any costs incurred by suppliers in the preparation and presentation of proposals and demonstrations submitted in response to this Invitation for Bid. 1.19 COOPERATIVE PURCHASING Suppliers: RCW 39.34 allows cooperative purchasing between public agencies also called political subdivisions. Public agencies which have an Intergovernmental Cooperative Purchasing Agreement with the City of Everett may purchase from City of Everett contracts, provided that the supplier has agreed to such participation. Each supplier must indicate on the quote submittal form if they will not honor other public agency orders in accordance with contract terms and conditions in addition to orders from the City of Everett. The City of Everett does not accept any responsibility for purchase orders issued by other public agencies. Cooperating Political Subdivisions: Public agencies desiring to use Everett's contracts must have executed an Intergovernmental Cooperative Purchasing Agreement with the City of Everett, as required by RCW 39.34. Only those public agencies who have complied with these requirements are eligible to use this contract. The public agency accepts responsibility for compliance with any additional or varying laws and regulations governing purchase by or on behalf of the public agency in question. A purchase by a public agency must be affected by a purchase order from the public agency, directed to the supplier or other party contracting to furnish goods or services to the City of Everett. The City of Everett accepts no responsibility for the performance of any purchasing contract by the supplier, and the City of Everett accepts no responsibility for payment of the purchase price for any public agency. 5