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Project Delivery Method Selector
Useful assumptions.

Compare delivery-method alignment across schedule, design, scope, complexity, owner capacity, competition, overlap, and collaboration.

Versioned planning model

Project delivery-method alignment

Adjust the known inputs. The result remains a conceptual planning range.

Cost basisMidwest / South-central preliminary planning assumptionsEffectiveJuly 2026Assumption set2026.07.1
Strongest alignment

Construction Manager at Risk

71 / 100

Aligns with early constructor input, complex or phased work, design involvement, and collaborative GMP development.

Also consider

Progressive Design-Build

68 / 100

Aligns with early design, uncertainty, collaborative scope development, and progressive pricing.

Comparative alignment

Agency Construction Management

65 / 100

Aligns with an owner needing an independent adviser across schedule, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholders.

Comparative alignment

Design-Build

63 / 100

Aligns with speed, integration, single-point responsibility, and performance-based design flexibility.

Comparative alignment

Negotiated General Contracting

61 / 100

Aligns with private negotiated procurement, relationship continuity, speed, and moderately defined scope.

Comparative alignment

Design-Bid-Build

41 / 100

Aligns with completed design, detailed owner control, sequential delivery, and competitive bidding.

Delivery method

How owner, designer, contractor, and construction manager relationships are organized.

Separate decisions

Procurement method and contract-pricing method require independent evaluation with qualified advisers.

Important limitation. Availability and authorization vary by owner type, funding source, jurisdiction, and law. This is educational guidance, not legal, procurement, architectural, engineering, or contracting advice. Delivery, procurement, and pricing methods are separate decisions.

Planning estimate only.

Calculator results are conceptual ranges, not bids, guarantees, engineering opinions, or financial advice. Actual requirements depend on verified scope, existing conditions, selections, access, market pricing, design, and approvals.