Dive summary:

• Contractors who cannot afford to take on entire state construction projects, including managing the process, are up in arms because Ohio has changed its bidding law after 134 years of bidding jobs piece by piece.
• Ohio agencies now can use single-contractor, design-build or construction-manager-at-risk approaches, all of which require capabilities that small and mid-sized companies are unlikely to have, they say.
• The smaller companies, which charge that the change was buried in an annual budget bill, say that now all they can go after is smaller pieces of projects as subcontractors to large firms that bid the jobs under the new system.

From the article:

Mike Coates Jr. of Mike Coates Construction in Niles said the change will be “devastating” to small and mid sized construction companies.  ...