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The Importance of Prevailing Wage Rates to Owners, Builders, and AE’s

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In fact, your construction use requires the use of prevailing wage or Davis-Bacon labor rates, it is likely best to procure them from a professional source. Using a Unit Price Book enables the development of full transparent, easily communicated, and detailed repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction project costs.

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Job Order Contracting Operations Manual

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facilities inspection programs generate requirements for sustainment, restoration, modernization work and minor new construction. orders and actions required by the Procurement Authority, are planned and discussed to. Procurement Authority with input from the FM team., The procurement authority and. Once satisfied.

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Job Order Contracting – Recommended Best Practices

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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. We hope you benefit from the following information.

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An Introduction to Job Order Contracting

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JOC reduces unnecessary levels of engineering, design, and contract procurement time along with construction project procurement costs by awarding long- term contracts for a wide variety of renovation, repair and new construction projects. Smaller projects were taking up to 1 year to procure creating a growing backlog of work.

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Army Job Order Contracts FAIL to meet AFARS requirements MOST OF THE TIME

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But that’s not all, the DoD doesn’t leverage current system thinking and robust, integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery workflows to maximize utilization of resource. The contracting officer shall negotiate the modification and make a determination that the price is fair and reasonable. (d) c) Limitations.

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Why Some Job Order Contracts Fail

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Facility managers and real property owners struggle with their numerous and ongoing renovation, repair, sustainability maintenance, and minor new construction projects. Focus must be upon negotiation and mutually satisfactory resolutions. 3 JOC Misused as a Way to Bypass Procurement. Even a JOC Plan Can Go Wrong.

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Best Practice Job Order Contracting

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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. a) JOC may be used to execute sustainment, restoration, and modernization projects at an installation.

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