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
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
- revisor.mn.govhttps://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/471.345