{"id":584,"date":"2016-08-28T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/08\/28\/3-points-informed-intel-state-auditor-report-txdot-design-build-contracts-bonjour-procurement\/"},"modified":"2016-08-28T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T16:27:00","slug":"3-points-informed-intel-state-auditor-report-txdot-design-build-contracts-bonjour-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/3-points-informed-intel-state-auditor-report-txdot-design-build-contracts-bonjour-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Points Informed Intel. State Auditor Report. TXDOT. Design Build Contracts. Bonjour Procurement."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Procurement &amp; monitoring was all good, Standardizing the contracts is not.<\/li>\n<li>Standardizing design build contracts will &#8220;foster uniformity and potential efficiency&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>11 specific issues were identifiied linked to the lack of TXDOT uniformity in contracts:\n<ul>\n<li>addenda to the requests for qualifications and RFPs were not always approved<\/li>\n<li>review of qualification statements and proposals did not always include completing\u00a0individual scoring worksheets<\/li>\n<li>no evidence of past performance of a contractor<\/li>\n<li>no consistent document retention<\/li>\n<li>no process for adjusting price proposals<\/li>\n<li>no process for reprocurement when a project has significantly changed<\/li>\n<li>no template for design build contracts<\/li>\n<li>no policy to ensure that &#8220;that descriptive information related to the alternative technical concepts is redacted&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>no process to ensure segregation in the membershi of evaluating committees<\/li>\n<li>no standard policy for a\u00a0a postmortem review<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sao.texas.gov\/SAOReports\/ReportNumber?id=16-037\">SAO |\u00a0An Audit Report on Selected Design-build Contracts at the Department of Transportation |\u00a0Report Number 16-037<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Procurement &amp; monitoring was all good, Standardizing the contracts is not.<\/li>\n<li>Standardizing design build contracts will &#8220;foster uniformity and potential efficiency&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>11 specific issues were identifiied linked to the lack of TXDOT uniformity in contracts:\n<ul>\n<li>addenda to the requests for qualifications and RFPs were not always approved<\/li>\n<li>review of qualification statements and proposals did not always include completing\u00a0individual scoring worksheets<\/li>\n<li>no evidence of past performance of a&#8230;<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-auditor","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}