Are You Over-Paying Your Construction Workers on Government Jobs?

Contractors looking to work on American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) funded projects in 2010 can be certain of two things: opportunity and competition. While the ARRA was signed into law over a year ago, the vast majority of infrastructure projects funded with ARRA dollars will begin construction in 2010. A recent report issued by Onvia, a government contracting and business intelligence resource, estimates that only about 27 percent of projects created by the ARRA-approximately 9,500-had actually been awarded to contractors by the end of 2009. This means there are still over 25,000 projects that are fully or partially funded by stimulus funds, which will begin in 2010. Click here to read the full article.