This synthesis report will be of interest to state transportation agencies (STAs) and their contractors as they implement Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) regulations as set forth in the U.S.DOT Final Rule, revised February 2, 1999. The revised Final Rule caused STAs to change the way they do business by prescribing new regulations, but also providing additional flexibility. The resulting different approaches to requirements among STAs are discussed, including bidder’s lists; prompt payment provisions; return of retainage provisions; actual achievements, including accounting and reporting procedures; good faith efforts; and compliance, including substitutions, fraud, and commercially useful functions. The synthesis also includes information on construction and construction management contracts, design–build projects, master contracts (indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, services on demand, and task ordering), pass-through to local agencies, and STA performance measures. The scope of the study applies generally to all DBE programs, but specifically to those in the highway transportation sector. A survey was distributed to each TRB representative. It was designed to gather information in four general areas: respondent information, general administration practices, precontract http://www.trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_syn_343.pdfadministration, and contract administration practices. This report also includes a review of the available literature and previous applicable work. A panel of experts in the subject area guided the work of organizing and evaluating the This report may be accessed by Internet users at collected data and reviewed the final synthesis report. A consultant was engaged to collect and synthesize the information and to write the report. Both the consultant and the members of the oversight panel are acknowledged on the title page. This synthesis is an immediately useful document that records the practices that were acceptable within the limitations of the knowledge available at the time of its preparation. As progress in research and practice continues, new knowledge will be added to that now at hand. (Author/publisher)
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