Construction Program Guide
The Construction Program Guide is intended to provide fast, easy access to Federal-aid construction program regulations, policy, guidance, and training. All construction related information is consolidated under key subject areas, with links to related information. The web site provides a consolidated source for Federal and State construction personnel to find updated information about FHWA's construction program.
Topic Areas
- Advertising for Bids
- Alternative Contracting Methods
- Additive (or Deductive) Alternate Bidding
- Alternate Pavement Type Bidding (AD/AB)
- Alternative Technical Concepts
- Construction Manager / General Contractor Project Delivery
- Cost-plus-Time (A+B) Bidding
- Design-Build Project Delivery
- Indefinite Delivery /Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Contracting - Job Order Contracting (JOC)
- Lane Rental
- Special Experimental Project No. 14 - Alternative Contracting
- Special Experimental Project No. 14 - Enhancing Highway Workforce Development Opportunities Contracting Initiative (withdrawn 02/11/2022)
- Special Experimental Project No. 14 - FHWA/HUD Livability Initiative (withdrawn 10/6/2017)
- Special Experimental Project No. 14 - Local Labor Hiring Pilot Program (withdrawn 10/6/2017)
- Warranties
- Bid Analysis and Award of Contract
- Bid Opening and Tabulation
- Buy America
- Cargo Preference Requirements
- Construction and Materials Quality Assurance
- Construction Contracting Method
- Construction Engineering
- Contract Changes
- Contract Claims
- Contract Time
- Contractor Furnished Equipment/Supplies for STA Ownership
- Convict Produced Materials/Convict Labor
- Culvert Selection
- Davis-Bacon (Payment of Prevailing Wage Rate)
- Electronic Contracting
- Equipment
- Erosion and Sediment Control
- Foreign Contractor and Supplier Restriction
- Form FHWA-1273 - Required Contract Provisions
- General Contract Administration
- Hiring Preferences
- Immigration and Non-Discrimination Employment Issues in Highway Construction
- Indian Preference on Federal-Aid Projects
- Job Site Posters
- Owner Controlled Insurance Programs (Wrap-Up Insurance)
- Patented and Proprietary Products
- Price Escalation
- Project Labor Agreement
- PS&E Approvals
- Railroads
- Record of Materials (FHWA-47) no longer required
- Safety
- Source Documentation
- Standard Specifications and Plans
- State Preference for Materials
- Stockpiled Materials
- Suspension / Debarment
- Utilities
- Value Engineering Change Proposals (VECP)
- Veterans Employment Provision