notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, where the funding for such project or any similar state or federally funded undertaking with respect to low rent housing exceeds fifteen million dollars, the number of households living on the original site when funds are or were committed exceeds two hundred and a receiver has been appointed for the housing authority pursuant to section one hundred twenty-seven H of chapter one hundred eleven, the receiver shall award contracts for construction, reconstruction, installation, demolition, maintenance, alteration, remodeling or repair of any building as provided in sections forty-four A to forty-four H, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and forty-nine and the receiver shall not only prequalify general bidders as set forth in section forty-four D but shall also prequalify sub-bidders for all classes of work for which sub-bids are required in accordance with prequalification requirements the receiver shall establish. The receiver shall also include as a prequalification requirement for both general bidders and for sub-bidders for each such contract that each general bidder and each sub-bidder be able to furnish labor that can work in harmony with all other elements of labor employed or to be employed on each contract.