Iowa Code 26.5 – Prohibited contracts
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Terms Used In Iowa Code 26.5
- estimated total cost: means the estimated total cost to the governmental entity to construct a public improvement, including cost of labor, materials, equipment, and supplies, but excluding the cost of architectural, landscape architectural, or engineering design services and inspection. See Iowa Code 26.2
- Governmental entity: means the state, political subdivisions of the state, public school corporations, and all officers, boards, or commissions empowered by law to enter into contracts for the construction of public improvements, excluding the state board of regents and the state department of transportation. See Iowa Code 26.2
- Public improvement: includes a building or improvement constructed or operated jointly with any other public or private agency, but excludes all of the following:(1) Urban renewal demolition and low-rent housing projects. See Iowa Code 26.2If the estimated total cost of a public improvement exceeds the competitive bid threshold of one hundred thousand dollars, or as established in section 314.1B, a governmental entity shall not divide the public improvement project into separate parts, regardless of intent, if a resulting part of the public improvement project is not let in accordance with section 26.3.