Consultant urges early owner‑advisor, qualification‑based selection and transparency
Phil Dupuy told Norfolk leaders an owner adviser should be engaged early to lead procurement strategy, validate estimates and coordinate stakeholders; he recommended qualification‑based selection and warned against combining unrelated contract templates.
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Consultant Phil Dupuy advised Norfolk to hire an owner adviser early to guide procurement, validate estimates and coordinate stakeholders across design and construction. "The owner advisor is gonna interact with the designer during the phase 1, the preconstruction phase, and there's also gonna be start to be interaction between the designer and the CMAR," Dupuy said, describing the adviser's role in facilitating procurement, drafting documents and maintaining a risk register.
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