Contractor prequalification is not an accepted practice among all state departments of transportation (dots). Nevertheless, numerousstates have formal procedures that require highway contractors to be prequalified in addition to submitting a project bid bond. These prequalification procedures are based on state laws and were developed in an ad hoc manner. A new prequalification model was based on data collected from prequalification officials of state dots. The indiana department of highways has applied the model to a bridge construction project for which five contractors are seeking prequalification. Recommendations are presented to facilitate the model's implementation into existing state dot prequalification procedures. This paper appears in transportation research record no. 1282, Transportationconstruction 1990.
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