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Committee discusses rollout, contractor praise and next steps for ‘Alabama Builds’ public-works site
Summary
Members, staff and contractors told a legislative interim committee the Alabama Builds public-works site has eased project notices, citing a $25 posting fee, an early example where the site preserved a project after a newspaper error, and requests for trade-filtering and cost data to shape recommendations to the legislature.
At a meeting of the Joint Interim Committees, members, staff and contractors reviewed early use of the statewide public-works advertising site Alabama Builds and discussed next steps for the site’s phase 2 rollout, data collection and possible future mandates.
The committee heard that contractors welcomed a centralized site and the low $25 flat posting fee. "And for $25 only, as a flat fee, that that got a lot of cheers," said Speaker 1. Members noted the site’s notice-of-completion feature and that contractors are especially eager for trade-specific filtering so bidders can see relevant projects.
The committee also reviewed an early success: an engineer reported a newspaper notice was caught in junk mail and…
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