Amendment to Executive Order 13202, Preservation of Open Competition and Government Neutrality Towards Government Contractors' Labor Relations on Federal and Federally Funded Construction Projects
Allows agencies to exempt construction projects from labor rules
What it does
Agency heads may exempt specific construction projects from sections 1 and 3 when prior bid documents or contracts contained labor-related requirements and were awarded.
Real-world impact
- Allows existing project labor agreements to remain in place for certain projects.
- Reduces disruption to projects that already had contracts and agreements.
- Gives awarding authorities and construction managers a formal exemption process.
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Summary
This order amends a previous executive order to let agency heads exempt specific federal or federally funded construction projects from parts of that order.
An exemption is allowed when, before this order, the awarding authority or construction manager had issued bid documents or project agreements with labor-related requirements and at least one construction contract had already been awarded. It affects agencies, grant recipients, contractors, and workers by permitting existing project labor terms to continue in those cases.
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