Section 72-6-107 requires construction or improvement projects with an estimated cost for labor and materials that exceeds the bid limit defined in Section 72-6-109 to be performed under contract awarded to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder. Construction or improvement projects with estimated costs for labor and materials lower than that bid limit may be performed by force account. Section 72-6-107 also directs the Department to establish a procedure whereby evidence that a region violated that law may be heard, and also directs the Department to establish sanctions for a region found to have violated Section 72-6-107. This rule establishes those procedures and sanctions.