USACE Albuquerque District PLA Survey Due 11.19.20

1 November 12, 2020  Federal Construction

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Albuquerque District is soliciting comments from the construction community addressing the potential use of Project Labor Agreements (PLA) from large scale construction projects (exceeding $25 million) within the Albuquerque District area of responsibility.

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 W912PP21R0009 should be sent via email to Erica Talley at [email protected] no later than 19 November 2020, 2:00 PM MST.

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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One Response to USACE Albuquerque District PLA Survey Due 11.19.20

Mike Behler November 17, 2020 at 5:14 pm

PLA’s discriminate again non-union bidders and thus reduces competition on bidding projects. The reduced competition raises costs.

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