All work done or supplies or materials purchased in carrying out the purposes of KRS 98.040 to 98.170, when involving an expenditure of five hundred dollars ($500) or more, shall be by contract awarded to the lowest and best bidder. All bids or parts of bids for any such work or supplies may be rejected by the commission. Any commission may, with the consent of four (4) of its members, do any part of its work by day labor under such conditions as it may prescribe, when such procedure is recommended in writing by the superintendent of construction.
Awarding of contracts -- Commission may do part of work
KRS § 98.110, under HEALTH AND WELFARE IN CITIES OF THE FIRST CLASS AND IN COUNTIES CONTAINING SUCH CITIES.
KRS § 98.110