Miller Act 1935
Federal Government passed bond adopting a Miller right requiring payment and performance bonds on all public works.
Qualifications Based Brooks Act 1972
A/E's selected on qualifications
Clinger Cohen Act 1996 Defense Procurement Reform Act
Allows all federal agencies to utilize Design-Build. Prior to that no enabling legislation existed allowing Design-Build.
Standard of Care
The level of quality that any average Design Professional would be able to perform given the circumstances.
Design Bid Build
Slowest Project Delivery method, linear in nature, prescriptive (owner knows what they want),
Multi Prime
Project Delivery
CM at Risk
Project Delivery method allowing the contractor to come on board very early in design for preconstruction services yet maintains separation between Designer and Builder contractually.
Design Build
Fastest Project Delivery method, fast tracking possible overlapping design with construction utilizing incremental packages.
Low Bid
Procurement Method
Negotiated (Qualifications Based)
Procurement Method
Best Value
Procurement Method
Sole Source
Procurement Method
Lump Sum
Contract Format typically in DBB
Cost Plus Fee
Contract Format
GMP (Guaranteed Maximum Price)
Contract Format
Unit Price
Contract Format
Target Price
Contract Format
Trust flexibility
Successful Design Build requires _____ & _______ between participants
Hammurabi
Singular responsibility for both design & construction was first codified by ____
Bridging Documents
Owner provided items such as 20% design or more of the; prescriptive specs at RFP.
Spearin Doctrine
Owner is responsible for implied warranties in the sufficiency of the specifications.
Performance Requirements
____ ____ should identify end results.
Design Build
Single point of responsibility for both design & construction is an attribute of what delivery method?
Substantiation
The process of checking milestones along the way for completeness.
Prescriptive
Owner requiring specific products or methods be instituted by DB team in order to achieve desired performance.