Surface Transportation: States Are Experimenting With Design-Build Contracting

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Federal Highway Administration's (FHwA) pilot project to test and evaluate design-build contracting, a new approach to procurement, focusing on the: (1) extent to which states have used design-build contracting under the pilot project; (2) advantages, cited by proponents, of this approach over traditional contracting and the conditions under which the approach can be applied to highway projects; and (3) obstacles to using the approach for highway projects.