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Obtaining SWaM certification in Virginia enables businesses to bid on local and state contracts that are set aside for small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses. The Commonwealth of Virginia has committed to sourcing...more
Amendments to the Virginia Public Procurement Act relating to goods and resident bidders will take effect later this summer. Specifically, beginning July 1, 2024, there will be new preferences dealing with tie bids and in...more
The Superior Court of Arizona recently confirmed that state law preempts two local ordinances in Phoenix and Tucson that were set to take effect on July 1, 2024, and would have required construction companies that contract...more
Legislation has been signed into law in Virginia that expands the maximum thresholds for job order contracting by the Commonwealth. Job order contracting allows a public body to award a contract to one entity to cover...more
Michigan’s new Prevailing Wage for State Projects Act (the “Act”) became effective on February 13, 2024, and is substantially similar to a prior statutory prevailing wage requirement which was repealed in 2018. ...more
In its 2023 budget bill, H.B. 33, the Ohio Legislature modified several provisions of the Ohio Revised Code that establish dollar thresholds for when certain public authorities must competitively bid for certain goods and...more
Highlights: The original version of this article was published in the Spring 2011 issue of Brickerconstructionlaw.com. It has been updated based upon experiences over the last eleven years and additional review of the...more
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry’s bidding thresholds for a municipal authority and municipality will increase a little over 2% in 2022. The Department published its bidding thresholds for 2022 under Act...more
In 2019, the California legislature passed, and Governor Newsom approved, new legislation impacting the development industry. Effective January 1, 2020, the laws summarized in the link below will impact the development...more
North Carolina recently amended the statute that governs the process by which general contractors on certain public projects submit claims to the Director of the State Construction Office (“Director”). While many aspects of...more
In a recent decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that governmental entities have great flexibility to terminate agreements with contractors where the agreement includes a “termination for convenience”...more