GEORGE H. WEILAND AND PALMA R. WEILAND, HIS WIFE, AND LEROY STARLING AND ALENE A. STARLING, HIS WIFE, APPELLANTS,

v.

LECHNER LUMBER COMPANY, INC., A CORPORATION, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Mayes Printing Co. v. Flowers, 154 So. 2d 859 (Fla. 1st DCA 1963)
  …maximum when ordered and shipped on a series of Orders, each less than the maximum fixed by the competitive bidding statute. (AGO 1949-50, page 187). (See also: Armco Drainage and Metal Products, Inc. vs. County of Pinellas [2d Dist. Ct. of Appeal], 137 So. 2d 234). In other words, invoices for purchases may not be split and the statute-thus avoided. Were it otherwise, evasion of competitive bidding would be possible with complete impunity. Competitive bidding statutes are remedial-in character and should be…
• Harris v. Sch. Bd. OF Duval Cnty., 921 So. 2d 725 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006)
  …lote, 103 Fla. 976, 138 So. 721, 724 (1931). A person who contracts with the government is presumed to know the law, including whether a particular contract requires competitive bidding. See Armco Drainage & Metal Prods., Inc. v. County of Pinellas, 137 So. 2d 234, 236 (Fla. 2d DCA 1962). Competitive bidding requirements are designed to protect the public from collusive contracts and from the ill effects of official favoritism in public procurement; and to ensure fair competition among bidders for the public…
• Corr v. Leisey, 138 So. 2d 795 (Fla. 2d DCA 1962)
  …d not be enforced, although fully executed, as far as services rendered were concerned where a public policy statute of the state was violated. This court also held in the case of Armco Drainage & Metal Products v. County of Pinellas, Fla.App.1962, 137 So. 2d 234, that where the Board of County Commissioners of Pinellas County contracted to purchase certain material of over $1,000 in value without complying with the bidding statutes of Florida, that this was a public policy statute and therefore a party who…

Authorities Cited

• Spessard L. Holland v. Watson, 154 Fla. 64 (Fla. 1944)
• Ortega Co. v. Meeker, 154 Fla. 56 (Fla. 1944)
• Murray v. Stalnaker, 154 Fla. 64 (Fla. 1944)