SURETY NEEDED FOR DESIGN-BUILD

A state judge in Greenville, South Carolina, has ordered Greenville County to comply with state law by securing the county's design-build contracts for road repairs with payment and performance bonds. The county had hired a prime contractor whose subcontractors had bonded their work, but the prime contractor only provided a bond covering a small part of the contract value. The lawsuit was the latest filed by Edward D. Sloan, Jr., a retired paving contractor who says he has sued a half dozen times to block the county's program of alternative project delivery methods. He wants Greenville to return to traditional design-bid-build for its road repairs, but the county administrator says traditional methods take too long and have produced some substandard work in the past.

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• Authors:
  • Korman, R
• Publication Date: 1999-1-18

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 22
• Serial:
  • ENR
  • Volume: 242
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0891-9526

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adjudication; Bonds; Competitive bidding; Contract administration; Contractors; Court decisions; Design build; State laws; Subcontractors
• Geographic Terms: South Carolina
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Law; Maintenance and Preservation; I10: Economics and Administration; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00759768
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 15 1999 12:00AM