Creating and Abstracting Lessons-Learned from BCO Reviews
This database allows reviewers searching for relevant past expertise access to a relatively small set of comments that have been retained frequently for past reviews. The ability to order...

Computer-Based Risk Assessment of Competitive Procurement

Optimal Markup Policy in Sequential Competitive Bidding
Construction firms encounter resource constrains in their business operations. However, current competitive bidding models fail to consider the impact of a firm's constrained resources...

Preparation of Bid Documents for Dredging/Excavating Contaminated Sediments, Soils and Marsh Deposits at the Marathon Battery Superfund Site Cold Spring, NY

Space-Frame Pyramid
The world's largest space frame pyramid, completed at California State University in Long Beach in late 1994, proved to be a lighter weight and more economical alternative...

Geotechnical Baseline Reports
The greatest percentage of disputes in underground construction results from subsurface conditions that are different than from what is indicated in the contract. Adding geotechnical baseline...

Deliverance
Through the years, the low-bid has been the traditional contracting method for American public sector construction. Increasingly, a number of government agencies are experimenting with...

Spotting Specs Offenders
About 80% of all specification related litigation is brought about by three different personality types all too common to construction projects. The problem is specifications abuse, when...

An Automated Database System for Construction Bidding
A number of probability-based bidding models have been developed to assist a contractor in preparing bids that improve chances of winning over the competition. Models based on utility...

Contractor Names Subs Late, Loses Bid

A Low Bid for a Deep Tunnel

Quality, Not Just Low Bid, is Public Agency's Concern

Arches For A Parkway
The final phase of construction on the Natchez Trace Parkway (which follows a centuries-old 450 mi trail between Natchez, Miss. and Nashville, Tenn.) is nearing completion almost 60 years...

Accepted but Unapproved Bid Yields No Guarantee

CM Launches `Pre-Emptive Strike' in Bid Documents

Overhead and Profit on Change Orders
Have you ever wondered how many change orders it took to build the Egyptian pyramids or the Great Wall of China? The concepts of overhead, profit, and change orders have been around for...

Opportunities and Constraints for the Innovative Geotechnical Contractor

Implied Warranty Not Found in Bid Data

Standing Room Only at Portland Bid Meeting

Only Taxpayers Can Question Bids

 

 

 

 

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