Bringing Design Build Procurement to Port Development

This presentation discusses design build procurement, the different role plays of the port designer from that of traditional procurement, importance of appropriate owner requirements, contract form, and bid evaluation process. Design build allows the designers the opportunity to increase their skill set to design more cost efficiently, incorporate innovation, adopt alternative and safer build methods, and to meet tighter contractors’ schedules. Owner’s representatives need to have skills beyond those of traditional project managers, providing independent valued advice rather than a design centric response, to ensure that the owner’s requirements and budgets are being met and complied with. Risk identification, assessment, and valuation enables a contractor to provide a cost certain delivery. An exemplar case study project demonstrates faster, more efficient, and less costly delivery process while maintaining highest quality with minimal work changes. How to best achieve cost certain delivery, reduce owner risk, early partnering and comparison between traditional procurement, and DB procurement highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of both processes are also covered.