Alternative Project Delivery - Texas Water Development Board

Areas of Concern
Potential Areas Of Concern
Traditional Versus DB/DBO Approach On Public Projects
Criteria Traditional Approach DB/DBO Approach
Contractual
Arrangements
• Separate contracts with Contractor
and Engineer allow Owner to
define roles and responsibilities of
each.
• Joint venture team may not have long
history together.
• Allocation of responsibility between
Contractor and Designer is
developed independently of Owner
and assignment of responsibility may
be unclear to Owner.
Competition • Larger universe of individual
service providers (Designers/
Contractors/Operators) should
allow for more competition.
• Fewer DB entities exist because of
uniqueness of relationships and
liability, making smaller pool for
Owner to choose from. Smaller pool
could make for less competition.
• Advantage to Owner could be pairing
of experienced designer and
Contractor and ability to eliminate
bad teams during selective
procurement process.
Legal Barriers • Texas state public entities
procurement law provides a wellrecognized,
historically based
framework for the traditional
approach.
• Texas state law requires submission
of complete water plans prior to
regulatory approval.
• According to Texas state public
entities procurement law, public
entities must use the traditional
design-bid-build process to obtain
water/wastewater infrastructure.
Training/Workshop R. W. Beck 3-7