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... 5 • Reviewing and synthesizing the history of best value award protests and their outcomes. • Reviewing and synthesizing existing best value enabling legislation.
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... 6 To better understand how states are implementing best value procedures, a content analysis was conducted of the DOT best value guidelines, manuals, and RFQs and RFPs from 35 state DOTs. A content analysis is defined as a technique for making valid inferences by objectively and systematically identifying specified characteristics of a message, written or visual, using a set of procedures (Holsti 1969; Neuendorf 2002)

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