Mississippi procurement statutes are clear and unambiguous with regard to the requirement for the listing of a contractor’s certificate of responsibility on the outside of the bid envelope, if the bid is more than $50,000.00. It is also critical to remember the contractor’s name of the bid must be the name recorded as the holder of the Certificate of Responsibility with the Mississippi State Board of Contractors. On a number of occasions, contractors have made the fatal error of submitting their bid using an improper or incomplete corporate name. The result can be the rejection of a contractor’s bid because the entity signing the bid has no Certificate of Responsibility. Paying attention to this one small detail can save your bid from being rejected.