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Auditor Recommended JOC Program Best Practices

Job Order Contracting

Negotiating individual projects is critical to ensuring quality work at fair and reasonable prices. You should establish guidelines for evaluating and negotiating Job Order Contract proposals. Excessive use of consultants. Place limits (caps) on the use of non-catalog items.

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All things JOC – Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

For All things JOC – Job Order Contracting click here … Structuring a best value JOC Program requires far more than getting a certification, buying software, or hiring a ‘JOC consultant” . How measure success (From Owner and Design-builder perspectives). How to “negotiate” with a Contractor.

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JOC Program Manager’s Duties

Job Order Contracting

Here’s just a brief list of JOC Program Manager’s duties for a real property owner: Plan, organize, coordinate and administer facilities design and complex construction engineering projects with various entities. Select and negotiate architect and engineer consultants for design contracts.

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Sharing Your Budget Streamlines the Pre-Construction Phase

Wolgast Corporation

Here is one secret of the trade to save significant time during pre-construction, by giving your contractor a ballpark budget before design and/or estimating starts, an owner can take a shortcut in the preliminary phase and get to construction sooner.

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Bringing Industry Expertise to Your Doorstep: A Peek at Viewpoint’s 2019 Digital Contractor Roadshow Speakers

Viewpoint Construction Technology

How to respond to a cybersecurity incident from a non-technical standpoint: public relations, law enforcement involvement, and contract negotiation with vendors. Russ Young is a Senior Consultant at FMI and leads their technology partnering program. He helped run and grow LTech, a cloud technology integrator and consultancy.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: ?Negotiating? JOC

Rory Woolsey

. “Negotiating” JOC. This week the blog topic is on “Negotiating” unit price line items taken from national estimating guides on competitively bid contracts that are publically funded and subject to audits. In my thinking there should be NO NEGOTIATING in Job Order Contracting. I know them well.

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Home Builder Profitability Reached Highest Level on Record

Pro Builder

Last year’s net profit average for builders reached the highest level since management consulting firm The Shinn Group began tracking net income data in 1994. Home Builder Profitability Reached Highest Level on Record. cbroderick. Mon, 07/26/2021 - 10:00. The previous record was set in 2006, but 2020’s net profit average of 11.4%