§ 308.3 - Contract award requirements.

The obligations of the State, and of any political subdivision joining the State in its application for a Federal financial contribution under section 201(i) or section 205 of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2281, 2286), include, without limitation, the following:

(a) The requirement that the State include, verbatim, in each contract involving construction work in excess of $2,000 and cause to be included, verbatim, in each subcontract thereunder, the provisions prescribed in § 308.4 and cause to be attached the applicable wage determination decision of the Secretary of Labor.

(b) The requirement that each advertisement of an invitation to bid shall indicate expressly that if the construction phase of the contract exceeds $2,000:

(1) All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates not less than those determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a et seq.), and every such employee shall receive compensation at a rate not less than one and one-half times his basic rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of eight hours in any calendar day or in excess of forty hours in any work-week, as the case may be, as provided in section 201(i) of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2281) and in the Contract Work Hours Standards Act (76 Stat. 357) and,

(2) Bid specifications shall contain the labor standards provisions prescribed in § 308.4 of this part and shall have attached thereto the wage determination decision of the Secretary of Labor applicable to the project.