Common use of Preferential Bid Procedure Clause in Contracts

Preferential Bid Procedure. a. Employees covered hereunder, active or inactive, desiring to express an interest in future vacancies in an existing Bid Area, Classification, or station, other than those listed in C.1, above, may submit an electronic preferential bid at any time. Bids will remain on file until December 31 of the year in which they are submitted. Bids may be withdrawn or modified at any time before they are awarded. b. A complete listing of Bid Areas, vacancies to be filled, and position qualifications in each station will be posted electronically. c. Each bid received will be acknowledged and electronically filed in the Preferential Bid file in Craft Seniority order. d. When an approved vacancy exists, the senior qualified bidder will be offered the vacancy. That employee shall have three (3) working days to respond to the offer. Absent extenuating circumstances, once an employee has been contacted and accepts the preferential bid the employee must report to the new position or lose all bid rights for the next one hundred eighty (180) days. If the employee is contacted and declines the vacancy, the preferential bid will be discarded without penalty to the employee. To reapply the employee must submit a new preferential bid. e. The results of the bid selection will be electronically posted with a copy being sent to the Union.