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 2026-09-25.
- 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 in § 255.20(1) — the subsection requires a project above these figures to be competitively awarded to an appropriately licensed contractor and prescribes no quotation procedure below them our reading
- Indexation
- adjusted by the percentage change in the Engineering News-Record’s Building Cost Index from January 1, 2009, to January 1 of the year in which the project is scheduled to begin our reading
- Statutory citation
- Fla. Stat. § 255.20(1) our reading
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 2026-09-25
Where each value comes from
The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.
Indexation
The threshold amount of $300,000 for construction or $75,000 for electrical work, as specified in subsection (1), must be adjusted by the percentage change in the Engineering News-Record’s Building Cost Index from January 1, 2009, to January 1 of the year in which the project is scheduled to begin.
— all from leg.state.fl.us, retrieved 2026-09-25
Source
- leg.state.fl.ushttps://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0200-0299/0255/Sections/0255.20.html