Best Practice No. 3 requires establish clear evaluation and _____ processes.

• A. selection
• B. negotiation
• C. controls
• D. approval

Answer: (A)

The main idea is to have a structured procurement process that ties the evaluation of proposals to a formal, criteria-based choice of the design-build team. After proposals are evaluated against predefined criteria, a clear selection process determines which team will be awarded the project or move forward in the process. This pairing—evaluation and selection—ensures fairness, transparency, and a defensible decision, which are essential for competitive design-build procurement.

Negotiation, controls, and approvals play important roles in other parts of the project lifecycle, but they aren’t the standard paired term with evaluation in this context. Negotiation typically follows selection, while controls and approvals relate more to governance or project administration rather than the evaluation-to-selection sequence.