The Toolbox Medical Construction Contracting Vehicles of the U.S. Army Medical Command
Abstract
The U.S. Army Medical Command (USAMEDCOM) currently uses a set of pre-negotiated, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts, called Toolbox, designed to streamline the traditional solicit/bid/design, solicit/bid/build contracting process. Under Toolbox, facility managers can execute nominal design and/or construction projects via delivery orders issued against the existing pre-negotiated contracts. Toolbox contracts are managed by three U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Medical Support Teams (MSTs) : Fort Worth (which executes projects via medical job order contracts MEDJOCs); and Mobile and Huntsville (which execute projects via "Remediation" contracts) The literature review indicates that IDIQ contracts produce faster, cheaper, and higher quality projects than traditional contracting means, but no known study has compared the three MSTs to each other in those same terms. The objectives of this study were to explain the similarities and differences between the three MSTs' methods and determine if any MST was best-suited to execute projects of a certain scope by evaluating cost, timeliness, and quality of a sample of projects,
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 07, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA408327
Entities
People
- Michael C. Williams
Organizations
- Academy of Health Sciences