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MDOT: consultants handle most large design work; in-house staff cover smaller projects and oversight
Summary
MDOT told the House subcommittee that about 60 percent of design dollars and roughly 55 percent of construction engineering dollars are contracted to consultants; decisions to contract depend on regional staff capacity and project complexity.
Demetrius “Dee” Parker, bureau director for MDOT’s Bureau of Development, told the House Appropriations Subcommittee that MDOT uses a hybrid model for design and construction engineering.
“Those percentages, let's take design for instance. So 60% of the projects that we deliver, we have consultants that do the work,” Parker said, and he added that the split is best understood as a dollars-and-capacity calculation:…
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