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Job Order Contracting Overview

Job Order Contracting

Day to day decision-making and workflows significantly vary from traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. DO – Consider JOC and an integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery environment within which early and ongoing communication and collaboration the norm.

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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. On some jobs the debate would wade into the deeper waters of productivity and crew make-up.

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Report reveals industry unprepared for growing pressures

Construction Law

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.

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Digital Builder Ep 57: Global Construction Professionals Share Their Thoughts on Protecting Margins

Autodesk Construction Cloud

” – Kelsey Gauger , National Director of Operational Excellence, Suffolk Help teams be more productive Happy team members are more productive and less likely to switch employers. Diversity in product and client type is a is a big part of protecting profit margins. As we know, construction is very cyclical.

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Job Order Contract / Job Order Contracting – JOC: Do’s – Don’ts

Job Order Contracting

Design-bid-build, design-build, CM@R can’t match this level of productivity or success. You aren’t changing your construction requirements, just improving efficiency/productivity. As an Owner, negotiate openly and fairly with the Contractor on individual JOC projects / task orders. Assume a JOC is for everyone.

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Setting up a Job Order Contract Using Best Management Practices

Job Order Contracting

Excessively large UPBs, i.e. hundreds of thousands of line items are not generally recommend at they can negatively impact productivity, create confusion, and add to JOC Program overhead costs. d) An indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (task order) contract which provides for the use of negotiated, definitive, bilateral orders (i.e.,

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Job Order Contracting Consulting Services

Job Order Contracting

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).