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10 MINNESOTA STATUTES 2008 429.041 council shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder or it may rej ect all bids. If any bidder to whom a contract is awarded fails to enter promptly into a written contract and to furnish the required bond, the defaulting bidder shall forfeit to the municipality the amount of the defaulter's cash deposit, cashier's check, bid bond, or certified check, and the council may thereupon award the contract to the next lowest responsible bidder. When it appears to the council that the cost of the entire work projected will be less than $50,000, or whenever no bid is submitted after proper advertisement or the only bids submitted are higher than the engineer's estimate, the council may advertise for new bids or, without advertising for bids, directly purchase the materials for the work and do it by the employment of day labor or in any other manner the council considers proper. The council may have the work supervised by the city engineer or other qualified person but shall have the work supervised by a registered engineer if done by day labor and it appears to the council that the entire cost of all work and materials for the improvement will be more than $25,000. In case of improper construction or unreasonable delay in the prosecution of the work by the contractor, the council may order and cause the suspension of the work at any time and relet the contract, or order a reconstruction of any portion of the work improperly done, and where the cost of completion or reconstruction necessary will be less than $50,000, the council may do it by the employment of day labor. Subd. 2a. Best value alternative. As an alternative to the procurement method described in subdivision 2, the council may issue a request for proposals and award the contract to the vendor or contractor offering the best value as described in section 16C.28, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (2), and paragraph (c). Subd. 3. Day labor; detailed report. When the council has performed construction work by day labor, it shall cause a detailed report to be filed with the clerk and certified by the registered engineer or other person in charge, if there is no registered engineer. The report shall show: (a) the complete cost of the construction; (b) final quantities of the various units of work done; (c) materials furnished for the project and the cost of each item thereof; (d) cost of labor, cost of equipment hired, and supervisory costs. The report shall have attached a certificate by the registered engineer or other person in charge that the work was done according to the plans and specifications, or, if there were any deviations from them, an itemized statement of those deviations. Subd. 4. Alternate procedure on street improvements. As to any improvement or improvements consisting of grading, graveling or bituminous surfacing of streets and alleys, the council may proceed in the manner provided in this chapter, except that it may Copyright �O 2008 by the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. All Rights Reserved.