contract monitoring tag report tug conference monday, october 8, 2007
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Contract Monitoring TAG Report
TUG Conference
Monday, October 8, 2007
Mission Statement:
• The mission of Contract Monitoring TAG is to assist the TUG in advocating for and supporting the analysis of TRNS*PORT data as it relates to construction projects from conception to finalization.
GOALS• Long Term
– Provide guidance for Trns*port applications to preserve and enhance the analytical capabilities and functionality that reside in BAMS/DSS.
– Promote flexible inter-active/analytical tools that could work in conjunction with “decision support” data
– Support a diversity of output formats– Continue to advocate and guide the rewrite of
BAMS/DSS
– Long term goals (continued)• Promote awareness of the full analytical
capabilities of BAMS/DSS including but not limited to:
– competition modeling– fraud detection– general contract monitoring – comparison of as-bid to as-built data– identification of “bid items of concern” for
construction personnel– Methods of evaluating design-build contracts
and lump sum items– addressing modeling techniques to improve
estimate quality
Short-term Goals
• Protect and enhance the quality and usability of the Trns.port data during the development of web Trns*port database.
• Survey all Trns*port agencies to determine how they are utilizing the DSS models and database
Old Business
• Ballot Items– Remove items 2611 and 2624– Endorse items 7171 and 8570
• Collusion Detection Seminar –Feb 2008
• Web Trns*port and DSS– Forming a TRT
New Business
• State Discussions– VT, TX, TN, SC, OR, OH, NY, NS, NM,
NE, MS, MO, MN, ME, LA, KY, KS, IN, IA, GA, FL, DE, AR, AL
• US DOT/OIG Fraud conference
• TAG Coordinator / Asst. Coordinator– Turner Bond, MO –Coord.
– Steve Heller, IN - Asst. Coord.