Trenchless excavation construction in federal contracting.
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Authors
Higgins, Scott K.
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1994-07
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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en_US
Abstract
The industry related to Trenchless Excavation Construction (TEC) is seeing wide
spread expansion. Technological developments in the last twenty years have been applied
to TEC and now allow the installation of underground utility lines under previously
developed properties and in difficult soil conditions. Large municipalities and industrial
owners have greatly benefited from projects constructed using TEC. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) is the construction and
maintenance arm of the Navy and manages projects world wide. It is governed in is
contracting by the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) which among many things
attempts to encourage fair and equitable administration of contracts. The FAR does this
by restricting proprietary language and actions in government contracts and also by
focusing contracts on final products versus construction methodology.Since TEC is new, unfamiliar, and is often viewed to be a methodology and not a final
product, NAVFAC's specification writers have been concerned about addressing TEC in
their contracts. The purpose of this research project is to give NAVFAC designers and
specification writers a Guide Specification that allows for TEC, provides them a
comparison project that shows how TEC may be utilized, and also to make them aware of
the basic concepts of TEC via a NAVFAC magazine article.
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Civil Engineering
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1 v. (various foliations).
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.