HB3177: TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCT-DELIVERY

Legislative Summary

Amends the Innovations for Transportation Infrastructure Act. Provides that the Department of Transportation or the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority may use the design-build project delivery method for transportation facilities if the capital costs for transportation facilities delivered utilizing the design-build project delivery method or Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery method or Alternative Technical Concepts in a design-bid-build project delivery method do not for transportation facilities delivered by the Department, exceed $500,000,000 (rather than $400 million) of contracts awarded on an annual basis (rather than during the Department's multi-year highway improvement program for any 5-year period). Provides that the Department may adjust the applicable monetary threshold on a yearly basis to reflect inflationary costs in highway construction as measured by the United States Department of Transportation in the National Highway Construction Cost Index or other similar index. Requires a notice of any change to that threshold to be published in the Illinois Transportation Bulletin. Removes language that provides that notwithstanding any other law, and as authority supplemental to its existing powers, the Department may use the Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery method for up to 2 transportation facilities per year. Effective immediately.