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... 4 Introduction State departments of transportation (DOTs) are facing a challenge of developing and maintaining adequate levels of qualified staffing to meet the oversight, stewardship, and documentation requirements for delivering transportation construction projects.
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... Introduction 5 size and type, staffing availability, organizational structure preferences, and project delivery decisions, among other factors. Some state DOTs have created a separate innovative contracting program that centrally administers and manages their ACM projects.
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... 6 Staffing for Alternative Contracting Methods describing project delivery, procurement, and contract actions as well as staffing needs. However, to maintain consistent definitions throughout the report, the following terms are used in this synthesis: ACM Key Terms Alternative Contracting Methods (ACMs)
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... Introduction 7 Organizational Structure: The way in which an agency's organizational responsibilities and reporting authority are aligned vertically and horizontally and made consistent with capabilities of its staff (Parsons Brinckerhoff et al.
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... 8 Staffing for Alternative Contracting Methods responses indicating an agency's willingness to participate in the research. Additionally, it is equally important to carefully select the cases that can capture different types of organizational structures (decentralized, centralized, and a combination of centralized and decentralized)

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