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AASHTO to Host Two Product Improvement Summits

November 19, 2019

User Experts to Assess Insufficient Materials and Alternative Contracting Software Needs

During the 2018 PUG conference, the joint AASHTOWare Project Construction & Materials™ Technical Advisory Group (TAG) passed a resolution to request a product improvement summit for AASHTOWare Project Construction and Materials. As a result of this resolution, AASHTO is hosting two summits this Winter: 1) The evaluation of materials insufficiency and 2) Alternative contracting methods.

These 3-day summits will bring together over 35 attendees from AASHTOWare Project™ agencies, AASHTO, and Infotech, all with the objective of identifying improvements to the AASHTOWare Project software for their respective areas. A major goal of these summits is to focus on how existing functionality can be leveraged in previously unconsidered ways.

AASHTOWare Project Construction & Materials Insufficient Materials Product Improvement Summit

This summit will take place on December 3 – 5, 2019, in Gainesville, Florida, and will focus on the following areas:

  • Evaluate current materials insufficiency software functionality with the intent to identify agency business cases and possible approaches to resolving issues.
  • Reexamine existing Ticketed Modification Requests (TMRs) to reduce complexity and scope.
  • Review past agency survey results to identify pain points, workarounds, and potential solutions.

AASHTOWare Project Construction & Materials Alternative Contracting Product Improvement Summit

Hosted by the Minnesota DOT, this summit will take place on January 14 – 16, 2020, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and focus on the following areas:

  • Evaluate current alternative contracting software functionality with the intent to identify agency business cases and possible approaches to resolve issues.
  • Reexamine existing TMRs to reduce complexity and scope.
  • Review past agency survey results to identify pain points, workarounds, and potential solutions.
  • The focus will be on the following alternative contracting methods: Design Build, Lump Sum Contract, Job Order, Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity, Construction Manager/ General Contractor, Bid Factors, and Vertical Construction.

At the conclusion of each summit, results and recommendations will be provided to the Project Task Force (PTF) to inform product improvements.

By: Janet Treadway, Business Administrator/Electronic Project Delivery Management Lead, Ohio Department of Transportation; Monelle McKay, Director of AASHTOWare Products Strategic Initiatives, Infotech

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