<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 24, 2023, at 8:43 AM, Eric Hansen <<a href="mailto:ehansen@vicksburglibrary.org" class="">ehansen@vicksburglibrary.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Hello,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I have a question and I've had some trouble finding a good answer. I hope one of you can give me some guidance.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">My Board wants to know if we are legally required to solicit a minimum number of bids for construction work. <span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">My approach when looking for a new vendor of any kind has been to contact a large number--- it's not very difficult to transmit the same text to at least 5-10 different providers and compare their replies. But, my Board wants to know if there is a legal minimum for a district library.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Thank you for any insight, and have a great week.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div id="Signature" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" class=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span id="ms-rterangepaste-start" class=""></span></p><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><font size="3" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><b class="">Eric Hansen</b></font><font style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><br class="">Director</font><font style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><br class=""></font><a href="http://www.vicksburglibrary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPNoLP" class=""><font style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><font color="blue" class=""><b class="">Vicksburg District Library</b></font></font></a></span></font></div></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); 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