School District Appropriately Relied on Expert for Award of Mold Remediation Contract

PITTSBURGH - An environmental restoration company did not prevail in its request for preliminary injunction to vacate a bid filed by another company for mold remediation work at Moss Side Elementary School in Pennsylvania's Gateway School District. John C. Regan, Joseph A. Hughes, Jr., and Danny P. Hunt v. Gateway Area School District, No. 02-009126 (Pa. Comm. Pls., Allegheny Cty.).

An Allegheny County Pleas judge found that the school district appropriately relied on the expertise of its consultant, David Ginsberg, DMD, of the Center for Environmental & Occupational Training in Pittsburgh, to determine which remediation bid would be accepted for …