Contracting and Bidding Procedures
State of the Art
Contracting and bidding procedures reward contractors for quality work, innovation, accelerated early completions, minimizing motorists delays, and enhancing the safety of road-users and workers. On high-risk, high-visibility, and complex projects contractors are pre-qualified on the basis of quality and past performance.
To achieve state-of-the-art contracting and bidding, transportation agencies would need to:
- Utilize time-based bidding and flexible Notice to
Proceed dates on all projects which adversely affect the existing
level of service.
- Incorporate the quality and timeliness of a contractor's
past performance into pre-qualification procedures.
- Update and enhance existing computer software for calculating road-user costs to make it user-friendly and ensure that outputs are realistic and legally defensible.
