The AIC Competitive Procurement Project Project delivery alternatives are potent variables that an Owner should consider before it makes final decisions on how to configure its infrastructure projects, delivery methods, and financial allocations in a capital program. Rather than engaging in a fruitless struggle to pick a single delivery method, owners are better served by establishing a family of project delivery methods that Producers understand, and can rely on to quickly respond to owner solicitations with minimal wasted expense. AIC is building and testing this family of project delivery methods in the Competitive Procurement Project . AIC's Competitive Procurement Project is an important opportunity for public and private owners to move to a flexible, yet competitive menu of standard, proven procurement processes for the acquisition of infrastructure facilities and services.
Owners conserve resources for concrete purposes, and producers do too.
Many states are considering special legislation to authorize Design-Build as a procurement method. Properly drafted, such statutes should give public owners the opportunity to competitively test the quality and price of all design-build proposals before the public owner picks a winner. These statutes should also permit an open choice among different project delivery methods. Unfortunately, most of the legislative proposals to add Design-Build authority at the state and local level do not provide for quality and price competition before award, or for retained flexibility in delivery method. The 1999 Draft Revisions to the ABA Model Procurement Code do.