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.