• Associated General Contractors of America and other industry groups argue that going to the one-step system of getting design proposals will be expensive and counterproductive for participants.
• Eliminating the step of short-listing teams means more groups have to invest designs to compete for work that they have a smaller chance of winning. The industry worries that the private sector might follow the Army.
• The Corps says single-step, which it has used on a limited scale for some time, is not its preferred method, but it is a way to move projects faster from a to-do list to completion. Guidelines are do out at the end of this month.

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Working in concert with influential construction industry groups, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will release at the end of July new guidelines for the use of so-called "single-step design-build" on its projects. ...