DBIA Exam

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.