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Agency of Transportation seeks to raise bonding threshold to match State Bulletin
Summary
Agency of Transportation staff told the House Transportation Committee the bill’s Section 4 would raise the simplified bid/bonding threshold from $100,000 to $250,000 to align with State Bulletin 3.5 and add explicit emergency waiver language to speed contractor deployment during crises.
Doreen Carminetti, chief of contract administration for the Agency of Transportation, told the House Transportation Committee on Feb. 5 that Section 4 of the transportation bill proposes a technical edit to raise the bonding threshold from $100,000 to $250,000 to match updates in State Bulletin 3.5.
Carminetti said the change is largely administrative: State Bulletin 3.5, administered by the Agency of Administration, recently increased the simplified bid threshold to $250,000 and AOT recommends aligning statutory bonding language to avoid inconsistency. "We are initially proposing just a technical edit to align the bonding threshold with the updates made to State Bulletin 3.5," she said.
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