Collection of RFP and proposal evaluation criteria for eight CSS projects from other state DOTs, representing a range of project sizes and scopes.
The Hawaii Department of Transportation (Hawaii DOT) has been working for the last several years to incorporate CSS into its process by gathering an interdisciplinary CSS Working Group to first institutionalize and document the department’s existing CSS efforts, then to prioritize ways to improve upon those efforts. In 2007, Hawaii DOT had a CSS conference with staff from the FHWA Resource Center, the result of which was a prioritized list of action items to move forward in institutionalizing CSS. One of the top priorities was to conduct training beyond the top management, which was the extent of training deployed at that time. Staff from the FHWA Resource Center in Atlanta conducted three one-day training sessions for about 80 staff in project management and design in March 2009.
Another top priority was to incorporate CSS requirements into the work conducted by contractors, through Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and scopes of work. Formalizing how Hawaii DOT defines CSS, and how contractors can successfully implement it, would be a critical step toward fully incorporating CSS into the department’s procedures. Working with consultants first to implement CSS could also prove to be valuable experience for staff as they actively pursue refining the internal Hawaii DOT project development process to integrate CSS and move forward with CSS pilot projects.
The technical assistance for Hawaii DOT consisted of researching examples of projects across the country that were conducted by contractors and that have incorporated CSS. The example projects aim to represent diversity in sizes and scopes, as well as in addressing CSS through the RFP in a variety of ways. The research, included below, includes a table summarizing the sample projects collected, along with detailed information and links to resources for each example project.
