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From page 42... ... 40 CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSIONS The federal government requires state and local governments to implement the Federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program if they receive certain U.S.DOT funds for transportation projects. Use of traditional methods for DBE contracting goals on design-build projects is challenging for state transportation departments and design-build teams. Read the entire page →
From page 43... ... 41 State DOTs indicated in interviews that they would value additional information about successes and failures, as well as clarification from U.S.DOT or FHWA. Future research might include the following: • How to ensure coordination among state DOT design, contracts, and project management staff, and DBE program staff from the beginning to the end of a project • Needed DBE program language for requests for qualifications, requests for proposals, other contract documents, and monitoring documents, to ensure clarity for proposers and state DOTs • Options for how and when to establish a DBE goal on design-build and CMAR/CMGC projects • How, when, and on what project aspects a DBE goal can be set in public-private partnership contracts • How best to conduct outreach and consultation with DBE groups on an alternative delivery method project, before and after contract award • How and when to evaluate whether the contractor has met the DBE goal or made good faith efforts to do so • Whether DBE plans are valuable and might be required from a proposer • What could go into a proposer's DBE program plan submitted as part of its proposal, and how that plan is to be evaluated • Whether and how the state DOT could work with the selected proposer to augment or refine its proposed DBE plan • Proper timing to request the design-builder to provide dollar commitments for specific DBEs • How the state DOT counts DBE participation, tracks overall DBE use, and monitors the design-builder's execution of its DBE plan throughout the duration of an alternative delivery method contract • How the state DOT counts DBE participation, tracks cumulative DBE use, verifies that information, and monitors the contractor's DBE plan through many phases of a long-term P3 contract • Approaches the state DOT might consider to remedy lagging DBE participation that is identified early in the contract • What administrative remedies may be properly imposed on the design-builder for failing to meet the DBE goal or showing good faith efforts to do so (or other noncompliance with the Federal DBE Program) Read the entire page →

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... 40 CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSIONS The federal government requires state and local governments to implement the Federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program if they receive certain U.S.DOT funds for transportation projects. Use of traditional methods for DBE contracting goals on design-build projects is challenging for state transportation departments and design-build teams.

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... 41 State DOTs indicated in interviews that they would value additional information about successes and failures, as well as clarification from U.S.DOT or FHWA. Future research might include the following: • How to ensure coordination among state DOT design, contracts, and project management staff, and DBE program staff from the beginning to the end of a project • Needed DBE program language for requests for qualifications, requests for proposals, other contract documents, and monitoring documents, to ensure clarity for proposers and state DOTs • Options for how and when to establish a DBE goal on design-build and CMAR/CMGC projects • How, when, and on what project aspects a DBE goal can be set in public-private partnership contracts • How best to conduct outreach and consultation with DBE groups on an alternative delivery method project, before and after contract award • How and when to evaluate whether the contractor has met the DBE goal or made good faith efforts to do so • Whether DBE plans are valuable and might be required from a proposer • What could go into a proposer's DBE program plan submitted as part of its proposal, and how that plan is to be evaluated • Whether and how the state DOT could work with the selected proposer to augment or refine its proposed DBE plan • Proper timing to request the design-builder to provide dollar commitments for specific DBEs • How the state DOT counts DBE participation, tracks overall DBE use, and monitors the design-builder's execution of its DBE plan throughout the duration of an alternative delivery method contract • How the state DOT counts DBE participation, tracks cumulative DBE use, verifies that information, and monitors the contractor's DBE plan through many phases of a long-term P3 contract • Approaches the state DOT might consider to remedy lagging DBE participation that is identified early in the contract • What administrative remedies may be properly imposed on the design-builder for failing to meet the DBE goal or showing good faith efforts to do so (or other noncompliance with the Federal DBE Program)

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