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New Study Confirms PLAs Cost More

Thursday, October 3, 2019


The Beacon Hill Institute recently completed an extensive statistical analysis of the effects on school construction bids and on construction costs of PLAs in Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut and the state of New York.  In the Ohio, Massachusetts and Connecticut studies, our analysis found final construction costs to be significantly higher when a school construction project was executed under a PLA.  In the New York study, we found that final bids for construction projects were higher under a PLA. Get the report