Meeting with ARTBA's Contract Administration Committee
On Monday, May 18, 2009 Jeff Zaharewicz and Jerry Yakowenko with FHWA’s Office of Program Administration met with Rich Juliano (registered lobbyist for the American Road and Transportation Builders Association – ARTBA) and approximately 30 other members of ARTBA’s Contract Administration Committee. We were invited to meet with ARTBA’s membership to discuss various issues relating to Federal-aid highway construction contracting including value engineering, innovative contracting, Recovery Act construction contracting requirements, price adjustment clauses, Buy America, Davis-Bacon and other issues of interest to the highway construction industry.