Design Build asks a team to propose both the design and the price, usually on a best value basis, so the response combines a technical and design proposal with a number.
What Design Build demands
The owner sets performance criteria rather than a finished design, and the team proposes how it will design and build to them. The response is scored on the design approach, the technical solution, the team, and the price together.
Where responses go wrong
A firm that treats Design Build as a price bid underinvests in the design and technical content that wins it, or a team that overdesigns without reading the evaluation weights spends effort where it does not score.
How an AI bid response agent handles it
An AI bid response agent reads the performance criteria and the evaluation factors, drafts the technical and design narrative aligned to them, and builds the requirements matrix so the best value response is complete and responsive.
You can see the best value Design Build response drafted to the criteria in our AI bid response agent demo for construction and infrastructure RFPs. It builds the combined design and price response to the evaluation factors.