/news/2012/08/01/legislators-to-consider-recommendations-for-public-contracting-law/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:47:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 /news/2012/08/01/legislators-to-consider-recommendations-for-public-contracting-law/#comment-72462 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:47:55 +0000 /?p=86175#comment-72462 Under Oregon’s Public Contracting Statute, a public contracting agency should not be exempting a public improvement contract from competitive bidding, unless it is unlikely that such exemption will encourage favoritism in the awarding of or substantially diminish competition for public improvement contracts, and unless the exemption will likely result in substantial cost savings to the contracting agency or the public.”

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