Reference Source

Minnesota — all municipalities

For Minnesota, state and entity type is Minnesota — all municipalities; entity type is all municipalities (the Uniform Municipal Contracting Law supersedes inconsistent entity-specific laws); spending category is all contracts for the purchase or sale of supplies, materials, equipment, and the construction, alteration, repair or maintenance of real or personal property; formal bid threshold (as stated in statute) is estimated to exceed $175,000; threshold (normalised) is $175,000, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.

State and entity type
Minnesota — all municipalities our reading
State
Minnesota our reading
Entity type
all municipalities (the Uniform Municipal Contracting Law supersedes inconsistent entity-specific laws) our reading
Spending category
all contracts for the purchase or sale of supplies, materials, equipment, and the construction, alteration, repair or maintenance of real or personal property our reading
Formal bid threshold (as stated in statute)
estimated to exceed $175,000 verified
Threshold (normalised)
$175,000 our reading
Informal quote tier
over $25,000 but not over $175,000: sealed bids or direct negotiation on two or more quotations; $25,000 or less: quotation or open market our reading
Indexation
no adjustment mechanism stated in this section our reading
Statutory citation
Minn. Stat. § 471.345, subd. 3 our reading
Sourcerevisor.mn.gov
Verified
Review by
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

If the amount of the contract is estimated to exceed $175,000, sealed bids shall be solicited by public notice in the manner and subject to the requirements of the law governing contracts by the particular municipality or class thereof.

revisor.mn.gov, retrieved 2026-08-19

Source

Last verified against source: . Due for re-check by . This page as Markdown · OKF bundle · full dataset as JSON.