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TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 343: Management of Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Issues in Construction Contracting examines state transportation agencies' (STA's) various approaches to implementation of DBE regulations relating to bidder's lists; prompt payment; return of retainage; actual achievements, including accounting and reporting procedures; good faith efforts; and compliance, including substitutions, fraud, and commercially useful functions. The report also includes information on construction and construction management contracts, designbuild projects, master contracts (indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, services on demand, and task ordering), pass-through to local agencies, and STA performance measures.
As highway congestion continues to be a problem in many areas, states are looking to construct or expand highway projects. When a state dept. of transport. receives fed. funding for a highway project, the projects must comply with the Nat. Environmental Policy Act, the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirement, the Disadvantaged Bus. Enterprise program, and the Buy America program. This report addressed: (1) the types of benefits and costs associated with these requirements for fed.-aid highway projects; (2) the influence of these fed. requirements on states' decisions to use nonfederal or fed. funds for highway projects; and (3) the challenges associated with the fed. requirements and strategies used or proposed to address the challenges. Illus.
In the past few decades, the field of transportation has changed dramatically. Deregulation and greater reliance on markets and the private sector has helped to reconfigure the transport industries, while the rise of intermodal goods and global commerce has produced efficiencies of operation and a greater interdependence among transport modes. In a