All work performed or supplies or materials purchased in carrying out the provisions of KRS 212.626 to 212.639 when involving an expenditure of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) or more shall be by contract awarded to the lowest and best bidder after advertisement by publication pursuant to KRS Chapter 424. All bids or parts of bids, for any such work or supplies may be rejected by the board. The board, however, may itself do or cause to be done, any part of its work under such conditions as it may prescribe by day labor. The commissioner may act on the behalf of the board in such matters.
KRS 212.638
Amended 2010, Ky. Acts ch. 76, sec. 1, effective7/15/2010. -- Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 347, sec. 12, effective 7/1/1977.