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AGC Urges Administration to Reject 'Blacklisting' Program

AGC cautioned the Obama Administration to reject calls to impose new contracting rules that would allow for blacklisting of companies based on arbitrary reasons, false accusations and unproven anonymous complaints. The proposed changes, referred to as 'High Road' contracting rules, also have the potential to delay countless federal construction projects by adding new levels of time-consuming and costly bureaucratic reviews. Read AGC's press release here. The news was covered in Engineering News-Record. For more information, contact Brian Turmail at (703) 837-5310 or turmailb@agc.org.