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Florida — counties, municipalities and special districts

For Florida, state and entity type is Florida — counties, municipalities and special districts; entity type is counties, municipalities, special districts and other political subdivisions; spending category is public construction works (higher figure); electrical work (lower figure); formal bid threshold (as stated in statute) is estimated to cost more than $300,000; threshold (normalised) is $300,000 for construction; $75,000 for electrical work, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.

State and entity type
Florida — counties, municipalities and special districts our reading
State
Florida our reading
Entity type
counties, municipalities, special districts and other political subdivisions our reading
Spending category
public construction works (higher figure); electrical work (lower figure) our reading
Formal bid threshold (as stated in statute)
estimated to cost more than $300,000 verified
Threshold (normalised)
$300,000 for construction; $75,000 for electrical work our reading
Informal quote tier
none stated in this section our reading
Indexation
adjusted by the change in the Engineering News-Record Building Cost Index from January 1, 2009 to January 1 of the year the project is scheduled to begin our reading
Statutory citation
Fla. Stat. § 255.20(1) our reading
Sourceleg.state.fl.us
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DatasetCompetitive bid thresholds for local government by US state — the dollar amount at which a city, county or school district must formally bid, with statutory citations

Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.

What the source says

A county, municipality, special district as defined in chapter 189, or other political subdivision of the state seeking to construct or improve a public building, structure, or other public construction works must competitively award to an appropriately licensed contractor each project that is estimated to cost more than $300,000. For electrical work, the local government must competitively award to an appropriately licensed contractor each project that is estimated to cost more than $75,000.

leg.state.fl.us, retrieved 2026-08-19

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