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NOTICE TO BIDDERS The DeSoto County Board of Supervisors will receive bids for purchase of new handguns to include trade-in of service weapons and seized firearms for the DeSoto County Sheriff in the following manner: BID FILE NO: 21-200-002 Firearms for DeSoto County Sheriff (Purchase and Trade-In) Un-priced bid proposals will be accepted until 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 24, 2020, in sealed envelopes at the Office of Procurement, 365 Losher Street, Suite 340, Hernando, Mississippi, or by electronic bid submission. Submissions will be evaluated and vendors submitting acceptable offers will be invited to submit priced bids. Electronic bids and/or reverse auction bids can be submitted at www.centralbidding.com. For any questions relating to the electronic bidding process, please call Central Bidding at 225-810-4814. Bidding will be held by electronic reverse auction on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. Bidders m ay come to the Office of Procurement with a paper bid and receive technical assistance in entering their bid in the reverse auction. Specifications and procedures are available by registering on the Procurement page of the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors website and printing the bid package at: http://desotocountyms.gov and on file in the Office of Procurement, DeSoto County Administration Building, 365Losher Street, Suite 340, Hernando, Mississippi, during normal business hours at no charge. Bid packages may also be downloaded from Central Bidding for a fee at www.centralbidding.com. All bids must comply with the specifications provided. DeSoto County reserves the right to amend the specifications, as necessary, and agrees to notify all having requested bid packets from the DeSoto County Office of Procurement. The Office of Procurement reserves the right to extend the auction date if necessary to complete the bid proposal pre-qualification process. That all un-priced technical offers must be sealed and clearly labeled on the outside of the bid envelopes as instructed in the bid package and delivered to the Office of Procurement at the above address or electronic bids can be submitted at www.centralbidding.com. Bidders may submit un-priced technical offers to Central Bidding at no charge. The Board of Supervisors reserves the right to reject any and all bids and waive any informalities. WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 2nd day of November, 2020. ________________________/s/ MISTY HEFFNER (SEAL) MISTY HEFFNER, CHANCERY CLERK DeSoto County Board of Supervisors SUBMITTED: DESOTO TIMES TRIBUNE FOR PUBLICATION ON: Thursday, November 5, 2020 Thursday, November 12, 2020 PROOF OF PUBLICATION TO: DeSoto County Administrator Office DeSoto County Administration Building 365 Losher Street, Suite 300 Hernando, MS 38632 Phone: 662-469-8180

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