• Faced with complaints, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a directive that lays out the conditions to be met for using its one-step, design-build procurement process.
• Projects have to be military jobs that generally will be less than $750,000, design-build proposals are not required in technical proposals and the Corps' chief of construction has to approve use of the process.
• Contractors had objected that the process could require a lot of investment up front with not enough chance of winning work to justify it.

From the article:

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Headquarters recently issued a directive noting limitations on the use of one-step selection procedures for design-build projects. ...