With this powerful combination, benefits such as innovation, creativity, efficiency, and teambuilding result. To maximize these significant benefits, the design-build process needs to have all the flexibility available in its procurement procedures. Best value blends the attributes of price, qualifications and other technical attributes to arrive at the best value for the project owner. The federal government recognized by statute in the mid-1980s that competitive negotiation procurement is on a par with low bid competition for direct federal projects. The federal government has procured its design and construction services utilizing a myriad of project delivery systems and procurement methods.
Many people confuse project delivery systems with procurement methods.
Project delivery systems encompass the entire acquisition process. Procurement methods, however, are the manner in which these properties, goods and services are purchased, no matter what project delivery method is used. There are multiple ways to buy design and construction services, particularly when they are combined. However, there are others such as best value procedures, which blend price and qualitative factors to determine the best value to the owner and the project. When best value procedures are used, the goal of owners, public or private, is not necessarily to maximize competition or to get the lowest bid for a specific procurement, but rather to obtain the fullest benefit to the owners and users of the project.