Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 22, 2018

All the tools , training , information, processes, and support are available to ANY procurement and facilities management team that wants to consistently deliver renovation, repair, and minor new construction project on-time, on-budget, and to everyone’s satisfaction. Oversight, without excessive management and control is vital.

Contract 100

Contract Guidelines Documentation Estimating 100

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Setting up a Job Order Contract Using Best Management Practices involves a mix of strategic and operational steps including a gap analysis of current and planned outcomes. . d) An indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (task order) contract which provides for the use of negotiated, definitive, bilateral orders (i.e., Procedures.

Contract 100

Contract Management Negotiation Estimating 100

Job Order Contracting

MAY 9, 2017

As a real proper owner, facilities management professional, or construction contractor, is important to review internal policies, procedures and controls with respect to your JOC Program and Estimating Construction Costs for Job Order Contracts : Are there areas of risk and/or compliance issues? Reduced procurement costs.

Estimating 100

Estimating Contract Change Orders Construction 100

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Facility managers and real property owners struggle with their numerous and ongoing renovation, repair, sustainability maintenance, and minor new construction projects. 1. Project Management Failure. Focus must be upon negotiation and mutually satisfactory resolutions. Even a JOC Plan Can Go Wrong.

Contract 100

Contract Consulting Negotiation Management 100

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 30, 2017

The appropriate selection of independent, objective, and experienced JOC consultant to assist in program design, implementation, and management can provide significant value to JOC owners and contractors. JOB ORDER CONTRACT ACQUISITION/PROCUREMENT STRATEGY. Facility Management/Engineering Planning. Facilities.

Contract 100

Contract Negotiation Estimating Procurement 100

Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

. “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.

Negotiation 45

Negotiation Estimating Contract Construction 45

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 4, 2017

Job Order Contracts, when created, deployed, and managed using LEAN best management practices, can provide significantly better outcomes that traditional construction delivery methods. Unfortunately, if an Owner or Facilities Manager is not educated on the topic and relies exclusively upon a JOC consultant, major problems are common.

Contract 100

Contract Project Management Consulting Long Beach 100

Construction Law

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Some 86% of respondents described themselves as ‘consultants’, held to include the design team, surveyors and specialist consultants. Contracts were being used that were held to inappropriately allocate risk, which was probably being obscured within the preponderance of complex procurement and contracting processes.

Industrial 52

Industrial Contract Consulting Negotiation 52

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 15, 2017

The application of LEAN methods and best management practices can significantly improve your job order contract. Proper selection of a JOC consultant and tools , professional JOC Program set-up, internal controls, and education/training improve your job order contract.

Contract 100

Contract Estimating Contractors Negotiation 100

Job Order Contracting

MAY 18, 2017

As such, they must be independent, objective, fully transparent and NOT linked to a JOC consultant if the later is being paid a percentage fee and managing the JOC Program. As such, the JOC Program MUST be directly managed by the real property owner to achieve optimal results and NOT managed by third party.

Contract 100

Contract Estimating Procurement Contractors 100

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 29, 2017

County, State, and Local Governments, include secondary education unfortunately continue to use JOC simply as a means to speed delivery and bypass traditional procurement versus as a LEAN collaborative construction delivery method. e) Each signed task order becomes, in effect, a fixed price, lump sum contract and is managed accordingly.

Contract 100

Contract Office Negotiation Procurement 100

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 15, 2016

That said, Job Order Contracting must be implemented and managed appropriately. As an Owner, negotiate openly and fairly with the Contractor on individual JOC projects / task orders. DON’T: As an Owner, JOC as a method to “bypass procurement”, or approve projects that others wise would not be approved. DO: Focus upon OUTCOMES.

Contract 100

Contract Estimating Bidding Contractors 100

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 13, 2023

While bringing in large projects and generating revenue is essential, it’s equally important to manage profit effectively and ensure healthy margins. It’s so hard to hire a project engineer or even a project manager or superintendent. Failing to do so can lead to financial instability and unsustainable operations.

Profitability 98

Profitability Risk Construction Autodesk 98

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Development of acquisition/procurement approach. Facility management/engineering planning. JOC procurement/award process. Facility management/engineering should conduct a review of work that could be done to under the support of the JOC program and develop an estimated annual volume. Monitoring. Ongoing training.

Contract 100

Contract Contractors Conference Plans 100

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Job Order Contracting (JOC) is both a LEAN construction delivery method and a method of procuring construction services through an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity term contract, using task orders as needed for individual projects, where the task order price is based on a book of preestablished unit prices (Unit Price Book – UPB).

Consulting 100

Consulting Contract Procurement Bidding 100

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 13, 2023

While bringing in large projects and generating revenue is essential, it's equally important to manage profit effectively and ensure healthy margins. It's so hard to hire a project engineer or even a project manager or superintendent. Failing to do so can lead to financial instability and unsustainable operations.

Profitability 52

Profitability Risk Construction Autodesk 52

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 5, 2017

Will you work directly with the real property owner or a consultant? JOC FUNDAMENTALS – Job order contracting, like any LEAN best management process, has basic requirements that focus upon collaboration, transparency, quality, and continuous improvement: Early and ongoing involvement of ALL participants. Shared risk/reward.

Contract 100

Contract Contractors Consulting Software 100

Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

However, I received many comments and questions on the “Negotiating JOC” blog from last week that really should be answered. With this better defined database the nebulous disappears along with negotiations, consternations, and contortions. construction consultants. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time.

Estimating 40

Estimating Bidding Negotiation Contract 40

Building Information Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

An innovative method of contract management is being used more and more by owners who desire quick service and reasonable cost. “JOC is a proven, but innovative method of contract management being used more and more by owners who desire quick service and reasonable cost for the maintenance and repair of their facilities.

Contract 40

Contract United States Estimating Bidding 40

Chianelli Estimating

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The stages of the construction process vary from project to project but whether you are a property owner, manager, project manager or just a stakeholder wanting to know more about what goes on behind the scenes of a construction project, here is your opportunity to dig deeper. Materials purchases are made from vendors (Procurement).

Construction 60

Construction Procurement Budgeting Budget 60

Job Order Contracting

JULY 29, 2021

Planning, procurement, and project delivery is inefficient and disparate. Construction Manager at Risk. Construction manager at risk ( CM@R) includes a construction manager who works with the owner and A/E through design and proposals and manages subcontracts to complete the work. Disadvantages. Advantages.

Design 130

Design Bidding Engineering Construction 130

Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

I heard the Critical Path Method (CPM) defined once as a management technique for losing your shirt under perfect control! Not so funny if you have ever been at the management end of a tight timeline, in an old facility, around on-going operations with the concrete truck on its way and the formwork delayed because the backhoe is out of fuel!!

Estimating 40

Estimating Cash Flow Budgeting Budget 40

Building Information Management

MARCH 10, 2017

JOC FUNDAMENTALS – Job order contracting, like any LEAN best management process, has basic requirements that focus upon collaboration, transparency, quality, and continuous improvement: Early and ongoing involvement of ALL participants. Value and qualification based selection and procurement. JOC Consultant: Do’s.

Contract 40

Contract Consulting Estimating Software 40

Viewpoint Construction Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In your search for a suitable project management system for your construction business , you will no doubt be faced with the challenge of narrowing down many options. Here are some examples of scenarios that can be greatly improved with an integrated project management system. Field defects management. Job site process.

Software 130

Software Software Construction Documentation 130

Building Information Management

JUNE 10, 2016

Staff for JOC Program Capacity – Determine the number and type of projects the JOC staff can handle at any one time to ensure projects are managed timely and appropriately. Program Management – Oversight and management of the Owner is the established best practice. JOB ORDER CONTACT – PROGRAM CHECKLIST.

Contract 40

Contract Consulting Documentation Estimating 40

Building Information Management

JUNE 8, 2016

The Job Order Contract enables multiple individual projects to be accomplished by the contractor(s) on an on-call basis through a single competitively bid procurement. The following are generally considered best management practices and core elements of a Job Order Contract. Best value procurement. Outcome-focused management.

Contract 40

Contract Plans Procurement Estimating 40

Construction Specifier

JANUARY 28, 2021

A substantial challenge faced by professionals preparing construction specifications for design-build projects is most master specifications were developed for traditional DBB or its ‘close relation,’ design-negotiate-build (DNB). Greater challenges arise when adapting DBB source documents for design-build.

Design 52

Design Documentation Negotiation Contract 52

Civil Lead

APRIL 22, 2020

To mitigate this problem one needs to have proper quotations from the contractor for each item or owner can engage the professional architect or engineer or project management consultant. Hence he has to manage and plan the fund from the beginning that is day one the cash flow has to be strong.

Contract 52

Contract Materials Housing Bargains 52

Building Information Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP). Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is the fourth in a series of publications discussing best practices developed by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP). Office of Federal Procurement Policy. Office of Management and Budget. INTERIM EDITION.

Contract 40

Contract Contractors Procurement Office 40

Building Information Management

JULY 27, 2016

Procurement and Contracting Requirements Group (Division 00): Introductory Information: Indexing and general information documents. Procurement Requirements and Contracting Requirements. 00 00 00 Procurement and Contracting. 00 20 00 Instructions for Procurement. 00 23 00 Procurement Definitions. Requirements.

Equipment 45

Equipment Construction Schedule Concrete 45

Building Information Management

JULY 27, 2016

Procurement and Contracting Requirements Group (Division 00): Introductory Information: Indexing and general information documents. Procurement Requirements and Contracting Requirements. 00 00 00 Procurement and Contracting. 00 20 00 Instructions for Procurement. 00 23 00 Procurement Definitions. Requirements.

Equipment 40

Equipment Construction Schedule Concrete 40

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 15, 2014

Alabama Industrial Development Training (AIDT): State training program certified in compliance with ISO 9001:2000, the International Organization for Standardization Principle for Quality Management. It also provides certified manager training and supervisory and team leadership training. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

Income 108

Income Finance Zoning Employment 108

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 21, 2014

ALABAMA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING (AIDT): State training program certified in compliance with ISO 9001:2000, the International Organization for Standardization Principle for Quality Management. It also provides certified manager training and supervisory and team leadership training. Supply chain management.

Income 75

Income Finance Zoning Equipment 75

Building Information Management

JUNE 22, 2012

The core competencies identified include competencies relating to building operations and maintenance, energy management, sustainability, water efficiency, safety (including electrical safety) and building performance measures. We will remain in constant consultation with the stakeholders mentioned above. paraphrased . .

Management 45

Management Contract Sustainability Life Cycle 45