Project Acceleration
PB offers the expertise and resources necessary to develop project-specific strategies to help accelerate—and maximize—your ability to secure stimulus funds. PB can help you advance your projects in a number of ways.
Project Readiness
- Assess which projects meet stimulus package requirements
- Identify preventive maintenance activities that are eligible and meet effectiveness measures
- Conduct project readiness assessments
- Prepare accelerated categorical exclusions, environmental re-evaluations, and other environmental studies to position new projects for potential additional stimulus funding
- Assist in any required updates of TIPs and fiscally-constrained transportation plans including expediting conformity analysis (MPOs and DOTs)
Expedited Procurement Strategies
- Streamline procurement processes and compress timelines
- Identify opportunities for provisional approvals
- Assist with turnaround of design, bid review, construction reviews and other items needed for letting
- Develop strategies (such as advanced bid packages for procurement of materials), provide oversight, and help manage processes
- Prepare PS&E packages
- Develop special provisions and A+B+C incentive contracts that include sustainable construction practices
- Support project acceleration through design-build procurement
- Advance development of preliminary design and procurement documents, including scope and design-build performance criteria and evaluation processes
- Provide quality control (QC) services to design-build contractors
Project Implementation Support
- Perform a program management role to support accelerated project delivery, scheduling, tracking and management
- Provide or supplement construction oversight
- Assist with accelerated permitting
Financial Analysis and Management
- Conduct cash flow and other financial assessments based on accelerated reimbursement
The following are in PDF format
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Louisiana TIMED Program Management |
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SCDOT Construction and Resource Manager Program |