Opinion No. (2003)

BILL LOCKYER Attorney General THOMAS S. LAZAR Deputy Attorney General THE HONORABLE JACKIE SPEIER, MEMBER OF THE STATE SENATE, has requested an opinion on the following question: May a public entity accept a bid for the construction of a public works project that does not specify the business location of each listed subcontractor but does provide the state contractor's license number of each listed subcontractor from which the business location may be ascertained upon further inquiry? CONCLUSION A public entity may accept a bid for the construction of a public works project that does not specify the business location of each listed subcontractor but does provide the state contractor's license number of each listed subcontractor from which the business location may be ascertained upon further inquiry. ANALYSIS We are informed that the lowest bidder on a recent city public works project failed to specify the business location for each subcontractor listed in the bid. Instead, the bid provided the state contractor's license number for each named subcontractor from which the business address could be ascertained by contacting the Contractors' State License Board ("Board"). Under these…