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This paper describes a variety of methods that may be appropriate for procuring the development of the next generation of maintenance management systems. Future maintenance management systems may be very different from the present systems. A main reason is that future maintenance management systems will be used for real time operations management and thus will require capabilities similar to certain types of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Thus procurement procedures suitable for advanced technological systems involving electronics and telecommunications are more appropriate than traditional low bid contracting that has long applied to highway construction. Among the procurement approaches addressed in this paper are performance contracting, turnkey projects, open solicitation procedures, outsourcing, public/private competition, requests for partnership proposals, franchising, pooled funded projects, and procurements involving innovative finance.

This preprint was duplicated from a camera-ready copy provided by the author(s) and has not been subjected to the formal TRB peer review process or edited.

PREPRINT F-6

English

10p

1997

Eighth AASHTO/TRB Maintenance Management Conference

References (6)

Competition; Contracting out; Financing; Franchises; Innovation; Intelligent transportation systems; Maintenance management; Partnerships; Performance based specifications; Pooled funds; Procurement; Real time control

Turnkey systems

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; I60: Maintenance

TRIS, TRB

Jul 8 1997 12:00AM