Current practices to set and monitor DBE goals on design-build projects and other alternative project delivery methods / consultants, David J. Keen, Keen Independent Research LLC, Denver, Colorado [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keen, David J., author.

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, issuing body.

National Cooperative Highway Research Program, sponsoring body.

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, sponsoring body.

United States. Federal Highway Administration., sponsoring body.

Series:

Synthesis of highway practice ; 481.

Synthesis of highway practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Road construction contracts--United States.

Road construction contracts.

Project management--United States.

Project management.

State transportation agencies--United States--Management.

State transportation agencies.

Minority business enterprises--United States.

Minority business enterprises.

Women-owned business enterprises--United States.

Women-owned business enterprises.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2015.

Summary:

"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 481: Current Practices to Set and Monitor DBE Goals on Design-Build Projects and Other Alternative Project Delivery Methods synthesizes current practices and challenges that state departments of transportation (DOTs) face as they set and monitor the Federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program goals on design-build and other alternative delivery projects. This study focuses on key issues associated with DBE contract goals, including how requirements are established, how submissions are evaluated, how program compliance is monitored through the contracts, and what mechanisms are available to state DOTs for enforcement." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Summary

Introduction

Use of alternative delivery methods by state departments of transportation

Application of traditional disadvantaged business enterprise contract goals to alternative delivery method projects

New approaches for applying disadvantaged business enterprise contract goals

Approaches to applying disadvantaged business enterprise goals to construction manager at risk and construction manager/general contractor methods

Conclusions

Glossary of terms and acronyms

References

Bibliography

Appendix A. Structured telephone interview guide for state departments of transportation

Appendix B. Sample RFP language for DBE contract goals for design build (North Carolina Department of Transportation design-build project from 2013)

Appendix C. Sample DBE plan submitted by proposer in response to a design-build RFP (Texas Department of Transportation design-build project from 2013)

Appendix D. Sample DBE and workforce/EEO project plans submitted by proposers in response to a design-build RFP (the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges project, a collaboration between the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Indiana DOT)

Appendix E. Virginia Department of Transportation special provisions pertaining to DBE program for design-build

Appendix F. Minnesota DOT disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) special provisions for design-build projects.

Notes:

"A synthesis of highway practice."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-49).

ISBN:

9780309271912

0309271916

OCLC:

914242949