EDWARDS v. BOSTON


408 Mass. 643 (1990)

562 N.E.2d 834

LEWIS EDWARDS & others vs. CITY OF BOSTON & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 21, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold J. Carroll (Joseph Mulligan, Corporation Counsel, Albert W. Wallis, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Stephen H. Clark, Assistant Corporation Counsel & Michael S. Giaimo with him) for the city of Boston & another.

Stephen E. Cotton, Special Assistant Attorney General (Janet R. Werkman, Special Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the Inspector General, intervener.

Paul L. Nevins for Lewis Edwards & others.

Philip R. Olenick, for National School Bus Service, Inc., intervener.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., NOLAN, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


NOLAN, J.

This case requires us to determine whether the city of Boston is bound by the Uniform Procurement Act, G.L.c. 30B, and, if so, whether the exercise by the city of an option contained in a preexisting contract was consistent with that statute. We hold that the statute applies to the city and that the exercise of the option in question violated the statute. Accordingly we affirm the order of the single justice of the Appeals Court.

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