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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"performance-based contracting"”.
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Comparative Analysis of Current Performance-Based Maintenance Methods to Improve Virginia Highways
… to identify the current state-of-practice in performance-based maintenance contracting (PBMC). Phase one gathered information on domestic and foreign agencies currently using performance-based maintenance on highways. Phase two used the mini-scan study information to build, compare and analyze …
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Development of Performance Warranties for Performance Based Road Maintenance Contracts
Performance based contracting in the transportation arena is a rather recently implemented concept which has a few number of applications in the United States up to date. Nonetheless, the US Department of Transportation has vigorously promoted (by issuing memorandums to be distributed to the …
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Services in Manufacturing Industries: Contributions to Quality and Competition
… In the first study, we examine the impact of Performance-Based Contracting on product reliability in an application in the aerospace industry (aircraft engines), and show that the incentive alignment induced by performance-based contracts positively influences product reliability by different …
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Measuring the Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Operations: Environmental and Dynamic Considerations
… and efficiency are relative terms in which the performance of a production unit or decision making unit (DMU) is compared with a benchmark (best practice). Constructing the benchmark requires making a choice between an "estimation approach" based on observed best practices (i.e., using data from …
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Assessing the viability of adopting the new engineering contract (NEC4) in the Nigerian construction industry: toward a framework for implementation
… was selected as the principal modern benchmark based on structural and procedural innovation, philosophical alignment with performance-based contracting, contextual applicability, and global adaptability. This research adopted a pragmatic mixed-method approach, using a sequential design that …
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A Framework for Monitoring Performance-Based Road Maintenance
… agencies around the world considered performance-based specifications as an alternative to improve the efficiency of the services provided to the public. These initiatives are better known as Performance-Based Road Maintenance (PBRM). PBRM calls for performance-based work, in which a …