Method to Determine Minimum Contract Bid for Highway Projects
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 130, Issue 4
Abstract
More and more state highway agencies (SHAs) have begun to consider the value of time in highway construction. The bidding concept is designed to shorten the total contract time by allowing each contractor to bid the number of days in which the work can be accomplished, in addition to the traditional cost bid. are not only used to provide an incentive to the contractor for earlier completion, but also to provide a disincentive for late completion of a project. Contractors are then presented with the problem of determining the best strategy of bid estimation, including construction cost, time cost, and incentive/disincentive. SHAs are also faced with the problem of placing a maximum and/or minimum on the time bid. To provide users a useful tool to estimate project time more accurately using this advanced method, this study develops a quantified model of the price-time bidding contract. The functional relationship between the construction cost and time duration is developed based on data from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). The contractor’s construction cost “A” is then combined with the road user cost and incentive/disincentive to determine the optimum low bid price and time. This optimum can then be used by the SHA to set limits on the range of acceptable time bids. Finally, several projects completed by the FDOT will be used to illustrate the validity of this model.
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Copyright © 2004 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Nov 8, 1999
Accepted: Jan 20, 2003
Published online: Jul 15, 2004
Published in print: Aug 2004
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