Article: Toledo, Ohio, to Review Local Contract-Bid Discount.

By Tom Troy, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 30--It should take more than a work trailer and a parking lot for bidders to qualify for local preferential treatment under Toledo's contracting laws, several members of Toledo City Council said yesterday.

The council members were referring to Whitehouse-based R.L. Williams Construction Co.'s claim of a local preference discount in bidding on a resurfacing contract worth more than $860,000.

"The criteria is murky. This was not council's intent that anyone can plop a trailer down and call it a place of business," said Councilman George Sarantou, who was joined by ...

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