DBIA - PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN-BUILD AND

DBIA - PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN-BUILD AND

POST AWARD 2024 ACTUAL EXAM QUESTION

AND CORRECT ANSWERS VERIFIED

ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+

Occurs when the design component has been priced and confirmed "within budget" and when the drawings and specs are approved by the Designer on record as complying with the RFP. - ANSWER✔✔Committed Design

• - Facilitate decisions to keep the estimate from increasing budget.
• - Encouraging proactive approaches to resolve changes quickly with the owner.
• - Tracking & Documenting cost fluctuations between milestone estimates.
• - Mitigating disputes before they get larger. - ANSWER✔✔Trend Management

When the design is completed enough such that accurate cost estimates can be determined. - ANSWER✔✔Design Stability A multi-disciplined comprehensive risk identification, evaluation and analysis session that involves representatives from the entire design build team. - ANSWER✔✔Joint Risk Assessment Award Fees, Shared Shavings, Target Cost Contracts, Alliance Contracts. - ANSWER✔✔Performance Incentives Cooperative Contracting model that is characterized by collaboration and aligning values, goals and objectives amongst owner, architect and contractor. Shares Risk among all participants. - ANSWER✔✔Alliance Contract Incentive mechanism for target cost contracts that triggers a financial reward when the DB'er meets or exceeds certain performance standards. Typically for non-cost related performance items: safety, schedule, communication, customer satisfaction. - ANSWER✔✔Award Fee 1 / 2

• - ID MWEBE Goals
• - Expected Substantial Completion Date
• -Weighted proposal selection criteria

4 - Performance Requirements - ANSWER✔✔RFP should include:

• - Statement of desired results
• - Attributes or Characteristics of a facility Element
• - Measurable or observable definitions of performance
• - Testing requirements to validate performance - ANSWER✔✔Performance Specs should include:

Form of Procurement where techinical proposals are critiqued not scored and the proposer revises design and is then judged off of low bid. - ANSWER✔✔Equivalent Design/Low Bid AKA BAFO

• - Fixed Price/Best Design
• - Equivalent Design/Low Bid
• - Adjusted Low Bid - ANSWER✔✔Best Value Procurement Examples
• - When the owner issues addenda to the RFP after reviewing design proposals to reflect aspects that

the owner likes about each proposal. - ANSWER✔✔Technical Leveling

• - Footprint SF
• - Gross SF
• - Building Perimeter

4 - Roof Area - ANSWER✔✔Conceptual Estimate needs:

Programming and design are developed by the design-build entity. - ANSWER✔✔Direct Design-Build

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