Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures - Second Edition

Appendix N

Government Design-Bid-Build WBS Example

Government Design-Bid-Build Project WBS

This is an example of a WBS for a Government Design-Bid-Build Construction project, depicted from the government's point of view.

This is a very high level WBS and would be decomposed to a greater level of detail in specific cases. Because this is a Design-Bid-Build Project, each phase is treated almost as a separate project because each may be planned and executed by a different organization. For this reason it makes sense to include certain service deliverable WBS elements separately within each phase, e.g., Project Management. These are modular WBS Elements.

1 WBS for Government-sponsored Design-Bid-Build Project

1.1 Phase 1: Prospectus

1.1.1 Project ...