Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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encouraging the best out of the bidders? And we're
seeing a number of responses to that issue. In some
cases, changing from a one-step to a two-step
process, going for a best value process versus a bid
on price process.
By looking at the RFP, we can look at
whether we're going to encourage more bidders to the
project, whether the costs are reasonable and
whether there is a large cost risk, the schedule,
the attitude of how we are representing ourselves to
the marketplace. And hopefully that will lead to
change order mitigation, which is something we all,
change order, nobody likes that.
Next slide. Now, value engineering, we
often think of it in this context as we're just
looking at some buildings, looking at some designs.
Well actually, industry has looked at management
practices and brought in business managers to
analyze how you do business as a company. Look at
how your funding procedures work, your procurement,
your IT and information exchange, the common
process, reviews, use of the AE, use of the
contractor, internal government communications.
Again, a VE team with the right team member can help
you do business in a more efficient fashion and
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