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(K) Bid Tabulation Form: The bid Tabulation Form used at bid openings shall include a place thereon for three witnesses to sign. This procedure will eliminate the need for signing each individual bid at the time of opening, thus requiring the three witnesses to sign only once for each bid number submitted. (L) Authority to Delav Bid Openinf!s: The County Manager is hereby authorized, without seeking prior approval of the Board in any particular case, to order a delay of any bid opening from its scheduled date and time to a time certain on the agenda of the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board, or such special meeting called for such purpose. The delay may be ordered at any time prior to the time of the scheduled opening, provided that such order be in writing, addressed and delivered to the Purchasing division with a copy delivered to the County Manager, and that copies thereof be mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested to all responding bidders as soon thereafter as is reasonably practicable. Upon receipt of the order, the Purchasing division shall immediately record the date and time thereof. The Purchasing division shall continue to accept sealed bids up until the applicable deadline. At the date and time originally scheduled for the bid opening, the Purchasing division shall announce the delay order to all in attendance and shall continue to maintain in its custody all properly submitted sealed bids until further order of the Board. At the time certain scheduled before the Board, the County Manager shall present his reason or reasons for the delay order and his recommendation for disposition of bids submitted. The Board may order the bids to be opened then and there, or at some other time and date certain; it may cancel the bid and order the return of all bids unopened; it may order a further delay of the bid opening; or it may make any other order appropriate to the circumstances. If the bids are ultimately opened, they shall be reviewed as provided elsewhere herein. If a delay occurs as provided herein, then the 30 day withdrawal period as provided in 8(I) shall commence upon the date of the actual bid opening, provided such date is not more than 60 days subsequent to the originally scheduled date. No delay shall be ordered beyond such 60 day period, unless the parties submitting timely bids consent to such delay in writing. In no event is the County Manager authorized to extend the deadline for bid submittals for any particular project, only the bid opening date. 23 ~.