Investigation of an innovative maintenance contracting strategy : the performance-based maintenance contract (PBMC).

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• Creators:
  Shrestha, P., ; Said, A. ; Shrestha, K.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Highway maintenance
  • Pavement maintenance
  • Benefit cost analysis
  • Chip seals
  • Striping
  • Street cleaning
  • Alternatives analysis
  • Contractors
• Publication/ Report Number:
  017-12-803
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Nevada
• Corporate Publisher:
  Nevada. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  One of the major responsibilities of state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) is to maintain their road assets so ; that road users can travel cost effectively, safely, and in a timely manner. Maintenance projects can be performed ; either by using the DOT’s own workforce or by outsourcing to private contractors. Recently, some state DOTs have ; started using performance-based contracting for maintenance projects. In this study, benefits of these types of ; maintenance contracts were collected by conducting a national survey. Moreover, this study compared the use of ; the state force (SF) and private contractors in Nevada regarding the cost and quality of such maintenance activities ; as chip seal, striping, culvert cleaning, and sweeping. Results showed that state DOTs were highly satisfied with ; work performed by the state force, followed by private contractors when using method-based contracting and ; performance-based contracting. The cost comparison showed that chip seal, striping, culvert cleaning, and street ; sweeping performed by SF was less expensive than when performed by private contractors. Similarly, the quality ; of chip seal, culvert cleaning, and street sweeping was better when performed by SF versus contractors. However, ; the quality of striping work performed by contractors using the performance-based contracting (PBC) method was ; better than when performed by the SF. Recommendations for future study include collecting comprehensive cost ; and quality data for stretches of roads that are similar.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29555/dot_29555_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.61 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e438bba296354adfddd1182de3db216da2f57084db611f60edc7bd62d1f38191