California Court of Appeal

Trial court's denial of plaintiff's petition for a writ of mandate challenging a decision by a general contractor and University Regents, awarding a contract to another subcontractor is reversed where: 1) the contract with the subcontractor must be set aside, as the University's violations of the competitive bidding statutes were not merely "technical or nonsubstantive," and they undermined the goal of stimulating competition in a manner conducive to sound fiscal practices and compromised the integrity of the selection process by failing to ensure procedural and substantive fairness; and 2) University did not violate section 1056.7 in awarding a contract on one of the alternative combination packages to the subcontractor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/24/2010
• Published 08/24/2010

Judges

• Jones

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Janette G. Leonidou, Charles F. Robinson