USACE Alaska District PLA Survey Due 11.13
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Alaska District has issued a survey soliciting comments from the construction industry about the potential use of a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) for the construction of a Child Development Center at Fort Wainwright in Alaska.
ABC National encourages the merit shop contracting community to respond to this PLA survey. Tell USACE government-mandated PLAs reduce competition, increase costs, and impede the economy and efficiency of government contracting.
To review and respond to USACE survey, click here.
Survey responses to Notice ID W911KB21FTW439-PLA should be sent via email to Ms. Tammy Davis at [email protected] no later than Friday, Nov. 13. Please include the Special Notice ID W911KB21FTW439-PLA in the subject line.
Attached is a template contractors can customize to help with their response. Before submission, please rename the document with your company name, pay close attention to the highlighted text and customize it as much as possible.
Please forward ABC Vice President, Regulatory, Labor & State Affairs Ben Brubeck ([email protected]) communications to USACE in case ABC National needs to take additional steps to defeat a PLA mandate on this contract.
ABC is Leading the Fight Against Government-Mandated PLAs in Federal Contracting
USACE and other federal agencies have issued hundreds of similar project labor agreement surveys requesting information about the potential use of PLAs on specific construction projects across the country as a result of regulations and federal agency policies stemming from President Obama’s pro-government-mandated PLA Executive Order 13502, which encourages federal agencies to mandate PLAs on a case-by-case basis for federal construction projects exceeding $25 million in total cost.
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has taken the opportunity to respond to all PLA surveys as they are issued and encourages the merit shop contracting community to do the same. Responding with accurate and timely information is critical and effective at creating more work for qualified merit shop contractors and their skilled employees. Due to our collective advocacy, none of these projects have had PLAs mandated on them.
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