Evaluation of Highway Agency Approaches to Consultant Oversight for Construction Engineering and Inspection Services

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Transportation is a dynamic environment with large fluctuations in workloads, reductions in workforce, hiring restrictions, among other constraints. Construction engineering and inspection (CEI) services offer a flexible strategy to reduce workloads, and to add private industry knowledge. It is beneficial for State DOTs to use their field engineering and project management areas to supervise CEI consultants. Thus, program oversight should be a major consideration in the management of CEI consultants. For this reason, the collection of processes, and procedures used to oversee CEI consultants through a literature review and an online survey was essential. The literature review of past reports and present agencies documents (request for proposals, scope of services, scope of works, etc.) uncovered the common activities used under CEI services. In addition, it allowed the organization of this information into a CEI table. This table served as a guide in the preparation of the online surve

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