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DBIA Test Study Guide with Complete
Project Delivery System - Answer✔✔-How team members are organized, establishes when parties
engage, determines roles of parties, and determines sequence of design, procurement, and construction
(db, cmar, dbb)
Procurement Method - Answer✔✔-how team members are selected (QBS, best value, low price, sole
source)
contracting approach - Answer✔✔-how team members are paid (fp, gmp, cost reimbursement, target
price, unit price)
Design-Bid-Build (DBB) - Answer✔✔-linear, sequential process, A/E selected on qualifications, GC
selected on low price, design is fully completed without input from GC, A/E acting in owner's interests,
with a historically strong bond, process is well-established and understood
construction manager at risk - Answer✔✔-similar org structure to DBB, construction manager selected
by QBS or best value, contractor provides precon services, negotiated gmp contracting approach, open
book estimating process, potential to fast track project, construction cost determined before design
completed, potential issues over what is reasonably inferable from gmp design documents
Design-Build - Answer✔✔-The owner contracts with one entity (a person or firm) to provide both design
and construction services, designer and contractor have a direct contractual relationship, selected by
QBS or best value, wide spectrum of contracting approaches and organizational structures, single point
responsibility, owner does not manage designer, owner exposure to claims is significantly reduced
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engineer procure construct (epc) - Answer✔✔-similar to design build, in industrial and power generation
sectors, systems and performance testing are central to scope, contractor will typically perform
engineering with its in-house staff, owner has need for single point responsibility, contracts include plant
and process performance guarantees, contract items include performance and schedule liquidated
damages and limitations of liability
Multiple Prime Contracting - Answer✔✔-owner contracts with multiple trade contractors, attributes are
typically similar to dbb, owner's ability to schedule and coordinate the work
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) - Answer✔✔-multi-party agreement - all parties equal, QBS
procurement and target pricing contract approach, private sector use (limited at this time), key: owner's
ability to accept risk
public-private partnership (p3) - Answer✔✔-Instead of government building and maintaining major
infrastructure (such as highway, water treatment plant), build and maintenance is outsourced to a
private company. Opposed by public sector unions. this is not considered a delivery system but its
underlying approaches are delivery systems and typically use DB. multiple procurement and contracting
approaches
shift left - Answer✔✔-intense efforts to establish scope early in the process; drives early team formation
to include key trade subcontractors; can enable big decisions to be made early, affect project outcomes
at lowest cost, establish a need for co-location and collaboration, and compress time during concurrent
design and construction
traditional design build - Answer✔✔-typically two-phase best value procurement with lump sum
contract; owner defines project requirements and scope of prescriptive work; use of performance-based
technical requirements with limited prescriptive specifications
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