Abstract:
In 1995, the NC General Assembly increased the threshold at which multi-prime bidding is required for public building projects from $100,000 to $500,000. At the same time the General Assembly authorized local governments and state agencies to request approval from the State Building Commission (SBC) to use alternative contracting methods. This bulletin describes the rules and procedures the SBC has developed to implement the statutory authorization and summarizes the SBC's disposition of applications it has received so far.