Bidding Thresholds For Municipalities And State Authorities Increased For 2019
Effective January 1, 2019, the thresholds for public bidding by Pennsylvania state authorities and municipalities increased moderately from 2018 and are as follows: Purchases and contracts below $11,100 require no formal bidding or written/telephonic quotations Purchases and contracts between $11,100 and $20,599 require three written/telephonic quotations Purchases and contracts of $20,600 and more require formal bidding Bidding […]
Commonwealth Court Strikes Down Use Of Project Labor Agreements Except In Extraordinary Circumstances
A project labor agreement (PLA) is a “pre-hire” collective bargaining agreement with one or more labor unions that establishes the working conditions on a specific, usually public, construction project. PLAs are controversial, not least because they typically restrict nonunion contractors from using their own workforce and require them instead to hire their workforce from the local unions’ labor pool, but […]
Bid Submitted By Email Was Properly Rejected
Bidding instructions are for the most part mandatory. The failure to follow bid instructions can easily result in the rejection of a bid. That is exactly what happened to one unfortunate bidder who submitted its bid by email instead of through the online portal specified by the bid instructions. In January 2017, the PA Department […]
Christopher I. McCabe, Esq.
