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Title:

STUDY ON PROCUREMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR PUBLIC WORKS: CASE FOR QUALIFICATIONS-BASED SELECTION

Accession Number:

00968542

Record Type:

Component

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Abstract:

The findings of a recent study on the procurement of professional architectural and engineering (A/E) services in New York City are outlined in an attempt to evaluate some of the claims put forward by proponents and opponents of qualifications-based selection (QBS) of such services. QBS is a federally mandated requirement enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1972, in recognition of the need for improvements in the way in which professional A/E services are procured. The law, commonly referred to as the Brooks Act, requires that architects and engineers be selected on the basis of their professional qualifications and subject to negotiation of a fair and reasonable compensation of such services. New York State is one of the states that adopted QBS (a total of 41 states had adopted it as of the end of 2001); but the New York State law does not cover local jurisdictions, and New York City continues to use competitive pricing as its primary method of selecting A/E contractors, citing the numerous advantages of the current system as well as the disadvantages of the proposed QBS method. The present study was based on past literature as well as recently procured projects in New York City (1997 to 1999), as presented by the New York City Mayor's Office of Contracts during a public hearing on QBS (December 1999).

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1861, Construction 2003.

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Christodoulou, S

Pagination:

p. 151-160

Publication Date:

2003

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1861
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309085985

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (4) ; Tables (5)

Subject Areas:

Construction; Highways; Research; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 13 2004 12:00AM

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