1. (a) Official bid amount. Except for lump sum building contracts bid items, the official total bid amount for each bidder will be determined by multiplying the unit bid price written in for each item by the respective quantity and totaling those amounts.

2. (b) Department interpretations.

   1. (1) Proposal entries such as no dollars and no cents or zero dollars and zero cents will be interpreted to be one-tenth of a cent ($.001) and will be entered in the bid tabulation as $.001. Any entry less than $.001 will be interpreted and entered as $.001.
   2. (2) If a bidder submits both a completed proposal form and a properly completed computer printout, the department will use the computer printout to determine the total bid amount of the proposal. If the computer printout is incomplete, the department will use the completed proposal form to determine the total bid amount of the proposal.
   3. (3) If a bidder submits two computer printouts reflecting different totals, both printouts will be tabulated, and the department will use the lowest tabulation.
   4. (4) If a unit bid price is illegible, the department will make a documented determination of the unit bid price for tabulation purposes.
   5. (5) If a unit bid price has been entered for both the regular bid and a corresponding alternate bid, the department will determine the option that results in the lowest total cost to the state and tabulate as such. If both the regular and alternate bids result in the same cost to the state, the department will select the regular bid item or items.
   6. (6) If a bidder submits an electronic bid and the diskette furnished is unusable by the department, then the required computer printout will be used to determine the total bid amount of the proposal.
   7. (7) If the unit bid prices or the total bid amount reflected by the electronic bid differs from the amounts reflected on the required computer printout, then the amounts reflected on the printout will be used to determine the total bid amount.

Source Note:The provisions of this §9.16 adopted to be effective November 23, 1994, 19 TexReg 8867; amended to be effective May 25, 1995, 20 TexReg 3574.