65 Ohio St. 3d 1210 | Ohio | 1992
This cause originated in this court on the filing of a complaint for a writ of mandamus and was considered in a manner prescribed by law.
According to the complaint filed in this action, respondent city of Cleveland (“city”) planned to renovate a municipal building and solicited bids on the renovations. The city desires to hire a single general contractor and therefore instructed bidders to submit “single prime contract bids” (i.e., bids for the entire project) only.
Relators, two mechanical trade contractors and two organizations representing such contractors, contend that R.C. 153.50 et seq. requires the city to allow
Relators seek a writ “directing Respondents to disregard the bids as opened, and to advertise and receive separate and distinct proposals for the furnishing of materials and doing the work on” the renovations. Relators’ true objects are a prohibitory injunction and declaratory judgment, neither of which the court has jurisdiction to grant.
Accordingly, because relators seek relief the court cannot constitutionally give,
IT IS ORDERED by the court that respondents’ motion to dismiss be, and the same is hereby, granted.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED by the court that this cause be, and the same is hereby, dismissed.