174. Before any contract as is referred to in section 173 is entered into
| (i) the Secretary shall, if the Pradeshiya Sabha so directs, take sufficient for the due performance of the contract ; |
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| (ii) the Secretary or the Chairman shall call for tenders or quotations in the prescribed manner ; |
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| (iii) the invitation to tender and the tenders or quotations if any or copies thereof shall be laid before the Sabha which shall either accept one of such tenders or quotations or reject all of them and where a tender or a quotation other than the lowest, where it relates to expenditure and the highest where it relates to revenue, is accepted, the resolution shall give satisfactory reasons for not accepting the lowest or the highest, as the case may be ; and |
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| (iv) the contract mall be sanctioned by the Pradeshiya Sabha after satisfying itself that the necessary funds have been provided for the same in a sanctioned budget or supplementary budget: |
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Provided that it shall not be necessary for the Secretary of the Pradeshiya Sabba Or the Chairman to call for tenders or quotations when the work or service or the supply of any article or material or any other matter necessary for the purpose of this Act, is to be carried out by a Government Department, Public Corporation or a registered Co-operative Society. |
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