Florence Concrete Products, Inc. v. North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors

ORR, Justice.

Petitioner Florence Concrete is a South Carolina corporation engaged in the manufacture and installation of prestressed concrete components for highway bridges. As such, petitioner has bid on past projects with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (“DOT”), supplied prestressed concrete components for more than two hundred North Carolina bridges, and installed these components in North Carolina bridges after bidding on these projects and being awarded the contracts.

In 1990, DOT issued invitations to petitioner to bid on fourteen DOT projects to supply and place…