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This helps UCAA keep pace with increasing construction costs to accomplish its purpose: to simplify and unify bidding procedures and cost accounting standards on public works projects.  For those public agencies that have opted in (or do opt in), according to specific statutory procedures, UCAA offers greater flexibility for awarding public works contracts up to the (now) $175,000… and even more flexibility for smaller public works contracts, as an award of up to $30,000 can be made without any bidding by those agencies that have opted into UCAA.

Still, there are formal, statutory requirements for opting into UCAA and for the alternative bidding processes - informal from $30,000 to $175,000, and formal for public works contracts over that amount and outside the safe harbor - including adopting certain prescribed accounting procedures. For more on this option that many public agencies have found useful in their facilities programs.