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          With the extensive maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction work that is being done on our street/road systems at the local, state, and Federal levels, road user costs due to delays and detours is mounting. The conventional process of contracting (design-bid-build and low-bid award) does not effectively recognize and take these mounting user costs into account. As a result, there is a nationwide trend to use the following innovative contracting techniques:

        Design-Build (i.e. I-15 project)

        Lane Rental

        A+B Bidding

        A+B+C Bidding

        Job Order Contracting

        Warranties

The Utah T² Center is developing a “Best Practices Guide” for the above mentioned innovative contracting techniques for UDOT, the Federal Highway Administration, and AASHTO. Currently, we have collected detailed information on each of these techniques and have developed a searchable database with pertinent details and specification provisions that can be queried and downloaded from the Innovative Contracting Web Site at http://www.ic.usu.edu