Historically, most projects in the United States performed by public agencies have been of the "Design-Bid-Build" variety, but there are a number of other style

Historically, most projects in the United States performed by public agencies have been of the "Design-Bid-Build" variety, but there are a number of other styles. Most of which involve the owner/agency contracting to fewer entities who do more of the various types of work that need to be done (design, constructing, managing, operating, financing etc.). Traditionally, in Design-Bid-Build the owner contracts with one company to design, they perform the bidding process, and a separate entity does the building, with financing also coming from their own operating/capital budget. The alternatives shown here [1] spice up that process. DBB isn't completely evil, the wiki page does a good breakdown of it's pros and cons. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_delivery_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_delivery_method [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%E2%80%93bid%E2%80%93build#Potential_problems_of_design.E2.80.93bid.E2.80.93build https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%E2%80%93bid%E2%80%93bui...