NTL Record

Title Design-Build Effectiveness Study: As Required by TEA-21 Section 1307(f)
Record ID 78532
Personal Name
Creator
Dornan, Daniel L.; Macek, Nathan; Molenaar, Keith R.; Shane, Jennifer; Bastias, Alfonso
Personal Name
Contributor
Downs, David; Sanvido, Victor; Gransberg, Douglas; Scott, Sidney
Corporate Creator Federal Highway Administration (U.S.)
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Publication Date 20060101
Language English
Abstract In 1998, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) became the new authorization legislation for the nation’s surface transportation programs. Included in TEA-21 was Section 1307 (c), which required FHWA to develop and issue regulations describing the Agency’s approval criteria and procedures. The Design-Build Contracting: Final Rule was published in the Federal Register on December 10, 2002 and became effective on January 9, 2003. The following lists the most salient parts of FHWA’s Design-Build Contracting Final Rule for consideration by both representatives of transportation agencies and firms interested in proposing on prospective projects using the design-build contracting approach: • Allows but does not require use of design-build contracting approaches; • Permits the use of design-build contracting on both qualified and non-qualified projects, where qualified projects are those over $50 million (or $5 million for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects); • Requires completion of the NEPA environmental clearance process prior to the release of the final request for proposals document; • Allows responsive unsuccessful proposers to receive stipends as partial compensation for their proposal development costs; • Eliminates minimum percentage participation by prime contractors on design-build teams; • Allocates various forms of risk based on ability to manage and control these risks; • Encourages consideration of value engineering and life cycle costing; • Permits multiple notices-to-proceed to enable work to proceed on specific project sections when environmental, utility, permit, and right-of-way clearances have been completed for those sections; • Defines requirements for avoiding conflicts of interest in the procurement process; • Allows for public-private partnerships to submit design-build contract proposals under a competitive process, consistent with state and local laws as well as applicable nonprocurement requirements such as Buy America, Davis-Bacon minimum wage, and right-ofway acquisition requirements; and • Suggests using a two-phase selection procedure, consisting of (1) shortlisting qualified teams based on responses (containing technical and qualifications-based information) to a request for qualifications (RFQ), and (2) evaluating technical and price proposals submitted in response to a request for proposal (RFP).
Rosap ID dot:53665
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/53665
TRT Terms Design bid build; Measures of effectiveness; Analysis; Project delivery
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
1446008
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/78000/78500/78532/designbuild.pdf
Alternative URL https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/designbuild/designbuild.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository