Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 749.09

Before entering into any contract for the erection of a hospital building, the board of hospital commissioners shall have plans, specifications, detailed drawings, and forms of bids prepared, and when adopted by the board, it may have such plans and drawings lithographed, and the specifications, forms of bids, and a form of contract and bid guaranty prepared by the village solicitor or city director of law of the municipal corporation, and have them printed for distribution among the bidders.