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Design-Build Amendment Become Law – 7/1/11

In 2005, Mark Shambaugh, DBIA 2002 National Chairman, co-authored a law enabling public Design-Build in Indiana. Design-Build for public projects was precluded, except for energy projects, until that time. After a slow start, 19 projects are either completed or in progress totaling $280 million today utilizing Design-Build. In an effort to further accelerate Design-Build usage on public projects, Mark drafted an amendment, along with DBIA, to significantly streamline the process with 11 changes to the 2005 legislation. Mark again secured the support of Senate Pro Tem, Senator David Long,, got consensus and input from AIA and the general contracting community, and led testimony in both the House and Senate. The bill overwhelmingly won approval in the House 81-16 and the Senate 50-0, has been signed by the Governor and will become law July 1, 2011. The advantages include, but are not limited to: Offerors not required to appear more than 3 times before the full Technical Review Committee, RFP’’s cannot be issued until referendums pass for larger projects (high schools > $20M; schools/counties/cities & towns > $12M), limits deliverables required for RFP, reduces RFQ time from 30 to 14 days, no prior authorization required from governing body of public agency to use design-build contracting,, projects < $5M have shortcut process, and written comprehensive score required for each proposal received during RFP process thus scoring is more open and requires consensus.