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36 C H A P T E R 4 An agency requires a pre-award review process that is both thorough and expeditious to accrue the previously described benefits. A contractor once described waiting for the outcome of design submittal reviews on awarded DB contracts as "sprinting in place while holding your breath" (Benton 2010)
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Agency Review and Evaluation of ATCs 37 project. While there is no guidance in the literature on developing ATC proposals, there is some guidance regarding the development of DB and CMGC proposals that would appear to apply to ATCs (West 2012)
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38 Guidebook for Implementing Alternative Technical Concepts in All Types of Highway Project Delivery Methods Determine Project Performance Attributes Determine Primary Project Performance Requirements Primary Project Performance Requirement Project Performance Attribute Performance Attribute Matrix (PAM) Rate Baseline Project with PAM Assemble Integrated Design Review Team Baseline Technical Rating Baseline Schedule Rating Baseline Constructability Rating Baseline Cost Rating Determine Relative Attribute Importance Baseline Performance Rating (PR)
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Agency Review and Evaluation of ATCs 39 To cover this eventuality, the Texas DOT includes the following clause in their solicitation (Texas DOT 2008) : [Competitors]
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40 Guidebook for Implementing Alternative Technical Concepts in All Types of Highway Project Delivery Methods that avoid the issue of design liability for critical features of work, like bridges. Once comfort with the ATC process has been gained, an agency can progressively increase the amount of scope eligible for ATCs until the agency finds its optimum level of value.
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Agency Review and Evaluation of ATCs 41 4.2.2 ATC Evaluation Plan The ATC evaluation plan must be both fair and transparent. It should be reduced to the evaluation of specific information needed to determine whether a given ATC can be approved.
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42 Guidebook for Implementing Alternative Technical Concepts in All Types of Highway Project Delivery Methods 4.3 ATC Submittal Documentation The required content of an ATC proposal is dependent on whether the ATC is a full-scope or limited-scope submittal. Once again, the issue must be viewed from a full-spectrum perspective.
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Agency Review and Evaluation of ATCs 43 One unrecognized value of the CATC process is that the initial one-on-one confidential meeting with each proposer provides an opportunity to identify and resolve ambiguities in the baseline design criteria, as well as clarify the intent of the baseline design. This formal mechanism functions as a filter for formal requests for information (RFIs)
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44 Guidebook for Implementing Alternative Technical Concepts in All Types of Highway Project Delivery Methods Confidential one-on-one ATC meetings provide an opportunity to seek clarifications from an agency without revealing a potentially attractive idea to the competition. Additionally, these meetings provide the agency with a critical analysis of the industry's perspective of the project contract risks.
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Agency Review and Evaluation of ATCs 45 • Mistake: The quantities of work for a pay item do not correlate to the quantities taken off the plans by orders of magnitude indicating a potentially missing decimal point. • Ambiguity: The specifications require a given material to comply with a standard that is either out of date or no longer exists.
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