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House OKs five-year change to bid threshold for water and sewer projects to ease procurement delays
Summary
The House passed a committee substitute to House Bill 352 reducing the statutory minimum competitive bids for certain water and sewer construction projects from three to two for a five-year trial period, aiming to address a statewide shortage of qualified contractors; the bill passed and will be sent to the Senate.
Representative Perez (Wake), sponsor for House Bill 352, told the House the bill responds to municipalities that cannot routinely obtain the three required competitive bids under G.S. 143-132 for large water and sewer projects. Perez said some localities effectively have only about 10 contractors statewide capable of such projects, which forces rebidding, delays and higher taxpayer costs.
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