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Who Assumes the Risk of Material Cost Increases? As Always, It Depends!

Best Practices Construction Law

In other words, you are negotiating about who takes the risk on a particular issue. The contractor could have bargained for protection from price increases by including a price escalation clause in its proposal…but it did not. The Back-and-Forth. The decision in Mabus provides a few lessons.

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Project Labor Agreements (PLAs): What Contractors Need to Know

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A project labor agreement, or PLA, is a prehire collective bargaining agreement that sets the wages and benefits for all workers on a project. This could affect $262 billion in federal government construction contracting as well as nearly 200,000 workers on federal construction contracts. What is a project labor agreement?