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原文传递 Considerations for a Guide to Contracting ITS Projects. Final rept.

题名：	Considerations for a Guide to Contracting ITS Projects. Final rept.
作者：	tarnoff, p. j. marshall, k. r.
关键词：	Transportation-agencies; ITS-project; Procurement-methods; Complex-system-acquisitions.;Research-; Lessons-learned; Guide-; Development-.
摘要：	Through research and lessoned learned from early (ITS) deployers, it has been concluded that the procurement of goods and services to support ITS deployments represents a major obstacle for transportation agencies responsible for deploying ITS. This obstacle can be attributed to the challenges associated with the procurement of goods and services to support the deployment of complex information technology (IT) systems. In response to this challenge, innovative procurement methods have been established. In order to overcome the challenge of procuring ITS, transportation agencies must institutionalize innovative procurement methods. The first step towards this requires that transportations agencies become aware of innovative procurement methods and their appropriate usage. Concurrently, federal, state and local procurement policies, practices and procedures have to be considered and possibly tweaked to accommodate innovative procurement methods. The use of inappropriate procurement methods may result in project cost-overruns, final designs that do not satisfy functional requirements and long-term maintenance failures. An appropriate method of procuring ITS must be flexible enough to accommodate the uncertainties of complex system acquisitions, while at the same time rigid enough to ensure that the responsibilities of the participants are fully defined and their interests protected. In an effort to aid state and local transportation agencies with the identification of appropriate innovative procurement methods, the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) funded NCHRP Project 03-77 with the objective of developing a guide to ITS procurement. A research team was established to develop the guide. The research team included veteran ITS and procurement practitioners with a wealth of experience in procuring complex IT systems. An NCHRP research panel was established to oversee the development of the guide. The project also involved the development of a website, a final report and complimentary outreach materials. The website automates the process prescribed in the guide. As a result of this research it was determined that project, agency and environment characteristics and systems engineering and project management principles are key inputs into the process used to identify an appropriate procurement approach for a specified ITS project.
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