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The Pennsylvania Separations Act of 1913 requires public entity construction projects to solicit separate bids and award separate contracts for electrical, HVAC (heating, ventilating, air-conditioning), plumbing and general construction. In other words, four prime contracts are required for public projects. There are active efforts to exempt various local governments from complying with this long-standing law.
Please utilize this page to contact your local legislators to oppose any legislation that will cost taxpayers millions of dollars in unnecessary construction costs. Head-to-head bidding between separate and single prime bidding has demonstrated that separate prime bidding is consistently less expensive.