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1. Report No. FHWA-HIN-18-004 |
2. Government Accession No. |
3. Recipient's Catalog No. |
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4. Title and Subtitle Public-Private Partnership (P3) Procurement: A Guide for Public Owners |
5. Report Date March 2019 |
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6. Performing Organization Code FHWA |
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7. Author(s) Nancy Smith, Patricia de la Peña, Edward Kussy (Nossaman LLP), Sonika Sethi (Leidos), Porter Wheeler, Jonathan Gifford (George Mason University), Shirley Ybarra |
8. Performing Organization Report No. |
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9. Performing Organization Name and Address Leidos |
10. Work Unit No. (TRAIS) |
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11. Contract or Grant No. DTFH61-13-D-00022 |
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12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address Federal Highway Administration |
13. Type of Report and Period Covered |
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14. Sponsoring Agency Code HIN-CIFS |
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15. Supplementary Notes The FHWA Task Order Contracting Officer's Representative (TOCOR) for this project was Patrick DeCorla-Souza. |
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16. Abstract This Public-Private Partnership Procurement Guide (Guidebook) has been developed in coordination with the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Build America Bureau, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to provide advanced guidance on procedures, issues, and considerations involved in public-private partnership (P3) procurement of surface transportation projects, in particular for highway and transit investments. This Guidebook is part of the P3 Toolkit that consists of P3 guidance documents and tools to assist in educating Federal, State, and local policy makers, legislative and executive staff, and transportation professionals. |
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17. Key Words Public-Private Partnership, Procurement, highway investment, transit investment |
18. Distribution Statement No restrictions. |
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19. Security Classification (of this report) Unclassified |
20. Security Classification (of this page) Unclassified |
21. No of Pages 150 |
22. Price N/A |
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| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act |
| ADOT | Arizona Department of Transportation |
| AFC | Alternative Financial Concept |
| APM | Automated People Mover |
| ATC | Alternative Technical Concept |
| BAFO | Best and Final Offer |
| BPPM | Best Practices Procurement Manual |
| BPW | Board of Public Works |
| BRT | Bus Rapid Transit |
| BUILD | Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development Transportation Discretionary Grants program |
| CCI | Construction Cost Index |
| CDOT | Colorado Department of Transportation |
| CE | Categorical Exclusion |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
| CHPE | Colorado High Performance Transit Enterprise |
| CIG | Capital Investment Grants |
| COI | Conflict of Interest |
| CONRAC | Consolidated Rent-a-Car |
| DBB | Design-bid-build |
| DB | Design-build |
| DBE | Disadvantaged Business Enterprise |
| DBF | Design-build-finance |
| DBFM | Design-build-finance-maintain |
| DBFOM | Design-build-finance-operate-maintain |
| DBM | Design-build-maintain |
| DEIS | Draft Environmental Impact Statement |
| DOT | Department of Transportation |
| EA/FONSI | Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact |
| EDMS | Electronic Document Management System |
| EIS | Environmental Impact Statement |
| EMI | Electromagnetic Interface |
| ENR | Engineering News Record |
| ESRC | Evaluation and Selection Recommendation Committee |
| ESWA | Early System Work Agreements |
| FAR | Federal Acquisition Regulation |
| FAST Act | Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act |
| FASTER | Funding Advancement for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery Act |
| FDOT | Florida Department of Transportation |
| FEE | Functionality Evaluation Earthquake |
| FFGA | Full Funding Grant Agreement |
| FHWA | Federal Highway Administration |
| FRA | Federal Railroad Administration |
| FTA | Federal Transit Administration |
| HASP | Health and safety plan |
| HOT | High-occupancy Toll |
| HOV | High-occupancy Vehicle |
| HPTE | High-Performance Transportation Enterprise |
| IFB | Invitation for Bids |
| INFRA | Infrastructure For Rebuilding America (Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects program) |
| ITP | Instructions To Proposers |
| ITS | Intelligent Transport System |
| LAX | Los Angeles International Airport |
| LLC | Limited Liability Company |
| LRV | Light Rail Vehicle |
| MDOT | Maryland Department of Transportation |
| MAP-21 | Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act |
| MARC | Maryland Area Regional Commuter |
| MPO | Metropolitan Planning Organization |
| NCHRP | National Cooperative Highway Research Program |
| NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
| NPRM | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| NTE | North Tarrant Express |
| NTTA | North Texas Tollway Authority |
| OCI | Organizational Conflict of Interest |
| OIPD | Office of Innovative Program Delivery (FHWA) |
| OMPD | Office of Major Project Development (CDOT) |
| ORT | Open Road Toll |
| O&M | Operation and Maintenance |
| P3 | Public-private Partnership |
| PAB | Private Activity Bond |
| PD | Project Development (phase) |
| PDA | Pre-development Agreement |
| PennDOT | Pennsylvania Department of Transportation |
| PIPP | Private Investment Project Procedures |
| PLTP | Purple Line Transit Partners |
| POMT | Port of Miami Tunnel |
| RFI | Request For Information |
| RFP | Request For Proposal |
| RFQ | Request For Qualifications |
| ROD | Record of Decision |
| ROW | Right-of-way |
| RSA | Revenue Service Availability |
| RRIF | Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing |
| SAFETEA-LU | Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users |
| SBA | Small Business Administration |
| SEE | Safety Evaluation Earthquake |
| SEP | Special Experimental Project |
| SHRP2 | Second Strategic Highway Research Program |
| SOQ | statement of Qualifications |
| SPE | special Purpose Entity (also known as Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)) |
| SSGA | Small Starts Grant Agreement |
| STIP | Statewide Transportation Improvement Program |
| SUE | Subsurface Utility Engineering |
| SWaM | Small, Minority, and Women-owned |
| TCRP | Transit Cooperative Research Program |
| TEA-21 | Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century |
| TIP | Transportation Improvement Program |
| TIFIA | Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act |
| TxDOT | Texas Department of Transportation |
| U.S.C. | United States Code |
| U.S. DOT | United States Department of Transportation |
| VDOT | Virginia Department of Transportation |
| VfM | Value for Money |
