Change orders or addendums to public construction contracts of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) or less shall not exceed a fifteen percent (15%) cumulative increase in the original contract amount. Change orders or addendums to public construction contracts of over One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) shall not exceed the greater of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) or a ten percent (10%) cumulative increase in the original contract amount. Any change orders or cumulative change orders which exceed these limits shall require a readvertising for bids on that part of the contract. Change orders in any amount shall be formally approved by the governing body of the public agency involved and the reasons therefor recorded in the permanent records. The governing body of the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department is authorized, upon approval of a majority of all of the members of the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Commission, to delegate to the Director of the agency the authority to approve change orders on a construction contract provided that the individual change order does not exceed Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) in expenditure and complies with the limits established by this section. The Transportation Commission may, by rule, authorize the Director of the Department of Transportation to approve change orders in an amount of not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00). Change orders approved by the Director shall be presented to the Transportation Commission during the next regular meeting and the reasons therefor recorded in the permanent records. All change orders shall contain a unit price and total for each of the following items:

1. 1. All materials with cost per item; and
2. 2. Itemization of all labor with number of hours per operation and cost per hour; and
3. 3. Itemization of all equipment with the type of equipment, number of each type, cost per hour for each type, and number of hours of actual operation for each type; and
4. 4. Itemization of insurance cost, bond cost, social security, taxes, workers' compensation, employee fringe benefits and overhead cost; and
5. 5. Profit for the contractor. If the construction contract was bid on a unit basis, and the change order is based exactly on the unit price or basis, such a change order will not be subject to this section. When the individual change orders are less than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), the change order may be based on an acceptable unit price(s) basis in lieu of cost itemization as required in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this section. Alternates or add items bid with the original bid and contained in the awarded contract as options of the awarding public agency shall not be construed as change orders under the provisions of the Public Competitive Bidding Act of 1974, Section 101 et seq. of this title.

Laws 1974, HB 1665, c. 298, § 21, emerg. eff. August 1, 1974; Amended by Laws 1975, HB 1251, c. 266, § 9, emerg. eff. June 5, 1975; Amended by Laws 1989, HB 1257, c. 164, § 1, emerg. eff. May 8, 1989; Amended by Laws 1993, SB 414, c. 293, § 2, emerg. eff. June 3, 1993; Amended by Laws 1995, SB 250, c. 200, § 3, emerg. eff. May 19, 1995; Amended by Laws 1997, HB 1745, c. 72, § 1, eff. November 1, 1997 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 1998, HB 2267, c. 118, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1998 (superseded document available).