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 2026-09-25.
- 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, obtaining two or more quotations for the purchase or sale when possible, without advertising for bids (Minn. Stat. § 471.345, subd. 4) our reading
- Indexation
- none in Minn. Stat. § 471.345, subd. 3: it fixes the figure itself, 'estimated to exceed $175,000', and delegates only the manner of bidding — 'in the manner and subject to the requirements of the law governing contracts by the particular municipality or class thereof' — not the amount. No index or formula appears in the section. our reading
- Statutory citation
- Minn. Stat. § 471.345, subd. 3 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
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 2026-09-25
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.
Informal quote tier
Subd. 4.Contracts exceeding $25,000 but not $175,000. If the amount of the contract is estimated to exceed $25,000 but not to exceed $175,000, the contract may be made either upon sealed bids or by direct negotiation, by obtaining two or more quotations for the purchase or sale when possible, and without advertising for bids or otherwise complying with the requirements of competitive bidding. All quotations obtained shall be kept on file for a period of at least one year after receipt thereof.
— all from revisor.mn.gov, retrieved 2026-09-25
Source
- revisor.mn.govhttps://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/471.345