Procuring Design-Build Services Flashcards

A design-build team formed specifically for a single project, where each member firm has defined roles and shared liability, is typically structured as a:

Answer: Single-purpose entity (SPE) or project-specific limited liability company

A single-purpose entity (often an LLC or JV) is commonly formed for major design-build projects to define member roles, share liability, and satisfy bonding or financing requirements.

Which of the following RFP evaluation criteria directly assesses a proposer's ability to complete a project on time?

Answer: Schedule approach and critical path methodology

A schedule approach criterion evaluates the team's plan for sequencing work, managing critical path activities, and achieving milestones within the required timeframe.

Under DBIA contract documents, the design-builder is responsible for design errors discovered during construction. This principle is known as:

Answer: Single-point responsibility

Single-point responsibility means the design-builder is accountable for both design and construction performance, including correcting design errors at no additional cost to the owner.

An owner's decision to use design-build rather than design-bid-build is most strongly supported when the project has:

Answer: Time constraints that require overlapping design and construction phases

Design-build's ability to fast-track a project by overlapping design and construction is one of its primary advantages over sequential design-bid-build delivery.

In a design-build competition, a proposal that is deemed 'non-responsive' will:

Answer: Be disqualified from consideration without further evaluation

A non-responsive proposal fails to meet mandatory submission requirements and is disqualified from further consideration to maintain procurement integrity.

The DBIA recommends that owners include a 'geotechnical data report' in the RFP package primarily to:

Answer: Provide proposers with available information so they can price and design more accurately

Sharing available geotechnical data helps proposers develop better-informed proposals and pricing, reducing contingency inflation caused by uncertainty.

Which of the following is a primary advantage of using a two-envelope (or two-step sealed) proposal process in design-build procurement?

Answer: It ensures technical scores are not influenced by price when evaluating qualitative factors

The two-envelope process keeps technical and price proposals separate so evaluators score technical merit objectively before price envelopes are opened.