On August 9, NSPE endorsed the Design-Build Efficiency and Jobs Act of 2013 (H.R. 2750). Introduced on July 19 by House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), H.R. 2750 would protect the integrity of the federal procurement process and enable small and large businesses alike to compete for federal construction contracts. In a letter of support to Chairman Graves, NSPE President Robert Green, P.E., F.NSPE, writes, "The Design-Build Efficiency and Jobs Act of 2013 addresses these issues by restricting the use of single-step design-build to federal projects that are less than $750,000 and by requiring federal agencies to better justify why they short-list more than five finalists in the two-step design-build process." You can read the press release, with a link to the actual letter.
