re: Only one contractor bids to remove New Orleans' confederate monuments, wants $600,000

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Only one bidder has submitted a proposal to take down three Confederate monuments in New Orleans and is asking more than three times the amount the city has budgeted for the project.

What does that mean to you? If the bidding was over, the correct and very normal way to say it would of been "only one bid was submitted".

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There's a deadline to submit sealed bids.

Once that deadline has passed, the bids are unsealed. If there was only one bid submitted before the deadline, then so be it.