This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Fair and Open Competition in Governmental Construction Act”. The purposes of this act are to provide for the efficient procurement of goods and services by governmental units; to promote the economical, nondiscriminatory, and efficient administration and completion of state and state-funded or state-assisted construction projects; to provide for fair and open competition for construction contracts, grants, tax abatements, and tax credits awarded by governmental units; to prohibit requirements for certain terms in construction contracts and construction contracts awarded by governmental units and supported through grants and tax subsidies and abatements by governmental units; to prohibit expenditure of public funds under certain conditions; to prohibit certain terms in procurement documents for certain expenditures by governmental units involving public facilities; and to provide powers and duties for certain public officers, employees, and contractors.
Added by Laws 2012, c. 145, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.