2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 314 - ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS FOR HIGHWAYS
314.1B - BID THRESHOLD SUBCOMMITTEES -- ADJUSTMENTS -- NOTICE.

        314.1B  BID THRESHOLD SUBCOMMITTEES -- ADJUSTMENTS --
      NOTICE.
         1.  Horizontal infrastructure.
         a.  The director of the department shall appoint, from the
      members of the appropriate advisory committee established under
      section 314.1A, a horizontal infrastructure bid threshold
      subcommittee for highway, bridge, or culvert projects.  The
      subcommittee shall consist of seven members, three of whom shall be
      representatives of cities and counties, three of whom shall be
      representatives of private sector contractor organizations, and with
      the remaining member being the director or the director's designee,
      who shall serve as chairperson of the subcommittee.  A vacancy in the
      membership of the subcommittee shall be filled by the director.
         b.  The subcommittee shall review the competitive bid
      thresholds applicable to city and county highway, bridge, and culvert
      projects.  The subcommittee shall review price adjustments for all
      types of city and county highway, bridge, and culvert construction,
      reconstruction, and improvement projects, based on changes in the
      construction price index from the preceding year.  Upon completion of
      the review the subcommittee may make adjustments in the applicable
      bid thresholds for types of work based on the price adjustments.
         c.  A bid threshold, under this subsection, shall not be
      adjusted to an amount that is less than the bid threshold applicable
      to a city or county on July 1, 2006, as provided in section 73A.18,
      309.40, 310.14, or 314.1.  An adjusted bid threshold shall take
      effect as provided in subsection 3, and shall remain in effect until
      a new adjusted bid threshold is established and becomes effective as
      provided in this section.
         2.  Vertical infrastructure.
         a.  The director of the department shall appoint, from the
      members of the appropriate advisory committee established under
      section 314.1A, a vertical infrastructure bid threshold subcommittee
      for public improvements as defined in section 26.2.  The subcommittee
      shall consist of seven members, three of whom shall be
      representatives of governmental entities as defined in section 26.2,
      three of whom shall be representatives of private sector vertical
      infrastructure contractor organizations, and with the remaining
      member being the director or the director's designee, who shall serve
      as chairperson of the subcommittee.  A vacancy in the membership of
      the subcommittee shall be filled by the director.
         b.  The subcommittee appointed under this subsection shall
      review the competitive bid thresholds applicable to governmental
      entities under chapter 26.  The subcommittee shall review price
      adjustments for all types of construction, reconstruction, and public
      improvement projects based on the changes in the construction price
      index, building cost index, and material cost index from the
      preceding adjustment.  Upon completion of the review the subcommittee
      may make adjustments in the applicable bid thresholds for types of
      work based on the price adjustments.
         c.  The subcommittee shall not make an initial adjustment to
      the competitive bid threshold in section 26.3 to be effective prior
      to January 1, 2012.  Thereafter, the subcommittee shall adjust the
      bid threshold amount in accordance with subsection 3 but shall not
      adjust the bid threshold to an amount less than the bid threshold
      applicable to a governmental entity on January 1, 2007.
         d.  Beginning July 1, 2006, the subcommittee shall make
      adjustments to the competitive quotation threshold amounts in section
      26.14 for vertical infrastructure in accordance with the methodology
      of paragraph "b".
         e.  After 2012, the subcommittee shall adjust the competitive
      quotation threshold amounts in section 26.14 at the same time and by
      the same percentage as adjustments are made to the competitive bid
      threshold.
         3.  Review -- publication.  Each subcommittee shall meet to
      conduct the review and make the adjustments described in this section
      on or before August 1 of every other year, or of every year if
      determined necessary by the subcommittee.  By September 1 of each
      year in which a subcommittee makes adjustments in the bid or
      quotation thresholds, the director shall cause an advisory notice to
      be published in the Iowa administrative bulletin and in a newspaper
      of general circulation in this state, stating the adjusted bid and
      quotation thresholds to be in effect on January 1 of the following
      year, as established by the subcommittees under this section.  

         2001 Acts, ch 32, §9, 14; 2006 Acts, ch 1017, §29, 42, 43; 2007
      Acts, ch 144, §11, 12
         Referred to in § 8A.311, 26.3, 26.5, 26.12, 26.14, 26.15, 28J.9,
      35A.10, 73A.2, 73A.18, 161C.2, 218.58, 273.14, 297.8, 314.1, 330A.12,
      331.341, 357.14, 904.314, 904.315