(2/2016)
“Arizona Wades Into P3 Mainstream with South Mountain Freeway $916m DBM Deal”, by Fredric W. Kessler, Partner, Nossaman LLP, Public Works Financing
"TxDOT departed from this orthodoxy with several design-build-maintain contracts, most of which structured a series of five-year optional maintenance periods into the contracts. The Arizona Department of Transportation has taken the TxDOT approach to a new level, setting precedent with its DBM contract for the South Mountain Freeway Project inked February 26 with Connect 202 Partners, a designbuild and maintain partnership led by Fluor Enterprises, and including Granite Construction and Ames Construction, with Parsons Brinckerhoff as lead designer, Raba Kistner as independant quality checker, and DBi Services LLC, as maintenance partner with Flour Enterprises".
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