Design-Build Concepts
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What are Betterments over the Solicitation?
The FAR Subpart which states selection procedures for a two-phase design-build acquisition.
What is FAR Subpart 36.3?
The individual responsible for establishing the Source Selection Evaluation Board
Who is the Source Selection Authority?
The only individual with authority to enter into, administer, or terminate contracts and make related determinations and findings.
Who is a Contracting Officer?
This is a unique requirement of a Design-Build RFP that would NOT be part of a construction IFB solicitation.
What are betterments?
Responsible for quality, technical accuracy of design and responsible for E&O
Who is the Design-Build Contractor?
Used to enhance competition and only available to qualifying but unsuccessful Phase 2 Offerors?
What are Stipends?
This documentation includes the Evaluation Board Report, Consensus Rating Sheets, Comparative Analysis, and Source Selection Decision Document.
What is Source Selection Documentation?
A meeting where the Design-Builder gathers necessary information to complete the design?
What is the Initial Design Conference?
This criteria used in D-B Construction encourages innovation, increases Contractor ownership, and creates the opportunity to design to market material.
What is Performance Criteria?
Aspects of the design criteria or other solicitation requirements wherein the Government expressed the design solution or other requirements in terms of specific materials, approaches, systems and/or processes to be used.
What is Prescriptive Criteria?
A meeting to review the contract clauses, administrative requirements, and procedural matters in order to establishes the ground rules for administering the contract.
What is the Pre-proposal Conference?
If an offeror with a higher priced proposal is recommended for award, this process requires rationale to be documented in the file explaining why the perceived benefits of the higher priced proposal merits the additional cost.
What is the Tradeoff Process?
The individual authorized to obligate the Government only within the monetary and other limitations delegated in the individual appointment letter with a dollar threshold not exceeding $500,000.
Who is an Administrative Contracting Officer (ACO)?
This post-award meeting is recommended with the Contractor where the Contractor can provide an overview of how much design, disruption, cost, or schedule impact changes have on a project prior to a modification.
What is a Joint Change Management meeting?
This responsibility is transferred to the Contractor and their DOR after award, which have the most control over the information and decisions.
What is the risk for successful design and construction?
When developing this part of a D-B solicitation, consider hybrid approaches, using a mix of both objective and subjective elements as appropriate to evaluate various aspects of the proposal.
What is source selection criteria?
The responsibility of this group is to consolidate the advice and recommendations into a written comparative analysis.
Who is the Source Selection Advisory Council?
This is used throughout the project lifecycle to identify and manage risks across stakeholders, including the Contractor in the post-award phase.
What is a Risk Register?
When determining this, consider if the proposal information to be submitted will discriminate between offerors.
What is submission requirements?
Allows the Contractor flexibility for the design to comply with the contract
What are performance based specifications?
This collaborative process is required in RFPs where PA or CWE >$1M and involves a team analysis of the design for constructability to achieve cost optimization.
What is Value Engineering?
During discussions, you should instruct Offerors of this to ensure they keep the desirable ones and eliminate undesirable ones in their revised proposal.
What is to inform Offerors how you evaluated all betterments ?
These five deliverables are submitted post-award and must conform to the contract.
What are 1) Plans & Specs, 2) Shop Drawings & As-Builds, 3) Design Models, 4) Construction Submittals and 4) Testing Plans & Results?
This is facilitated by breaking the overall design and construction effort into discrete packages based on major activities, relationships, and/or sequencing.
What is Fast-Tracking?