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Resolution - NIGP Resolution 1005 Davis Bacon Reform 1995

  • YEAR CREATED: 1995
  • ENTITY TYPE: Chapter
  • TYPE OF DOCUMENT: POL - Policies/Procedures
This document is a resolution titled "Davis-Bacon Reform" adopted by the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing on July 27, 1987, and ratified on November 11, 1995. The resolution highlights the need for reforming the Davis-Bacon Act, which was enacted to establish prevailing wage rates for laborers and mechanics working on federally funded or assisted construction projects. The resolution argues that the economic conditions and wage practices that led to the enactment of the Davis-Bacon Act no longer exist and that collective bargaining guaranteed by the National Labor Relations Act has secured rates in line with regional areas of the country. It further states that these Acts have resulted in higher costs for Federal, State, and Local Governments. The resolution proposes several reforms, including increasing the threshold for prevailing wage requirements on federally funded or assisted construction programs to at least $1 million, defining "prevailing wage" as a span of wages existing in the locality rather than dictating a specific wage rate, reducing reporting requirements, providing for a "helper classification" to provide opportunities for minorities, females, handicapped, and young workers, prohibiting the use of "metropolitan project data" in establishing wage rates on rural projects, and prohibiting the use of wage data from federal projects in Prevailing Wage Surveys. The resolution concludes by encouraging the support of all Federal, State, and Local agencies and requesting their assistance in introducing, considering, and adopting the proposed Davis-Bacon Reform Program.
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