§ 2308. Bids for certain joint purchases
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 53 Pa.C.S.A. Municipalities GenerallyEffective: November 3, 2011
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 53 Pa.C.S.A. Municipalities Generally (Refs & Annos)
Part III. Government and Administration
Subpart D. Area Government and Intergovernmental Cooperation
Chapter 23. General Provisions (Refs & Annos)
Subchapter A. Intergovernmental Cooperation (Refs & Annos)
Effective: November 3, 2011
53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2308
§ 2308. Bids for certain joint purchases
(a) Notice.--All joint purchases involving an expenditure of more than a base amount of $18,500, subject to adjustment under subsection (b), shall be made by contract, in writing, only after notice for bids once a week for two weeks in at least one and not more than two newspapers of general circulation in the joining local governments. All contracts shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder. Every contract for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement or maintenance of public works shall comply with the provisions of the act of March 3, 1978 (P.L. 6, No. 3),1 known as the Steel Products Procurement Act.
(1) The Department of Labor and Industry shall determine the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items (CPI-U) for the United States City Average as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2012, and for each successive 12-month period thereafter.
(3)(i) If the department determines that there is a positive percentage change in the first year that the determination is made under paragraph (1), the positive percentage change shall be multiplied by each base amount, and the products shall be added to the base amounts, respectively, and the sums shall be preliminary adjusted amounts.
(4) In each successive year in which there is a positive percentage change in the CPI-U for the United States City Average, the positive percentage change shall be multiplied by the most recent preliminary adjusted amounts, and the products shall be added to the preliminary adjusted amount of the prior year to calculate the preliminary adjusted amounts for the current year. The sums thereof shall be rounded to the nearest $100 to determine the new final adjusted base amounts for purposes of subsection (a).
(5) The determinations and adjustments required under this subsection shall be made in the period between October 1 and November 15 of the year following the effective date of this subsection2 and annually between October 1 and November 15 of each year thereafter.
(7) The department shall publish notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin prior to January 1 of each calendar year of the annual percentage change determined under paragraph (1) and the unadjusted or final adjusted base amounts determined under paragraphs (3) and (4) at which competitive bidding is required under subsection (a) for the calendar year beginning the first day of January after publication of the notice. The notice shall include a written and illustrative explanation of the calculations performed by the department in establishing the unadjusted or final adjusted base amounts under this subsection for the ensuing calendar year.
Credits
1996, Dec. 19, P.L. 1158, No. 177, § 1, effective in 60 days. Amended 2011, Nov. 3, P.L. 367, No. 90, § 1, imd. effective.
Footnotes
73 P.S. § 1881 et seq.
Subsec. (b) added 2011, Nov. 3, P.L. 367, No. 90, § 1, imd. effective.
53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2308, PA ST 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2308
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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