Effective Performance-Based Output Specifications for Transit Infrastructure Projects
Lawren Green
Vice President Finance and Development
Kiewit
Arsalan Zargar
Director
EllisDon Capital
Rob Pattison
Senior Vice President, Light Rail Transit
Infrastructure Ontario
and additional panelists
- How are performance-based specifications currently be used in infrastructure and public procurement? How and when are targets being defined?
- When is it more appropriate to use performance versus prescriptive? Which provides better value and why?
- How is risk being shared and what does moving from performance to prescriptive do to that risk transfer?
- How are performance targets monitored and evaluated? What kind of evaluation methodology should be used? What is the impact on innovation?
- How to maintain accountability
- Proper drafting of performance requirements – scope and preparation of the draft and payment mechanisms