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Define Construction Procurement

Job Order Contracting

Define Construction Procurement. Define Construction Procurement… It’s easy to define construction procurement right? Improper construction procurement methods and a relative lack of competency on the part of procurement staff have greatly contributed to poor construction outcomes. Perhaps not.

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Construction Equation: Knowledge Problems + Data Problems + Management Problems = Outcome Problems

Job Order Contracting

Lack of recognition by senior management of the linkage between between the built environment and organizational mission Low level of understanding of both life-cycle total-cost-of-ownership management and integrated lean planning, procurement, and project delivery principles and processes. Procurement of built assets. Data Problems.

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GAO: Contractors See Gaps in US Dept. of Energy Bidding Communication

ENR Construction

US Government Accountability Office conducted an audit of procurement process issues in the largest DOE contracts awarded from 2015 to 2020.

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Lowest price obsession hasn’t gone away

Construction Law

The Cabinet Office has announced new measures to deliver social value through public procurement in ‘Taking Account of Social Value in the Award of Central Government Contracts’. Previously, under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, social value only had to be ‘considered’.

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem

BD+C

This is the first time the federal government is prioritizing the use of American-made, lower-carbon construction materials in federal procurement and federally funded projects. billion is earmarked to procure low-embodied-carbon materials for construction and renovation projects. Of that amount, $2.15

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Regulatory – Job Order Contacting Statutes and Guidelines

Job Order Contracting

Minnesota Statutes 2015. General Assembly of Virginia Virginia Public Procurement Act. SWC-90818 Indefinite Quantity Construction Services SPD-CP031b. Massachusetts. Administration and Finance Job Order Contracting Program. Minnesota Statutes 2017. Service Cooperatives. The New York State Senate Senate Bill S6618. South Carolina.

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Job Order Contracting Program Implementation Strategy

Job Order Contracting

Overall procurement strategy. Job Order Contracting – A Procurement Success Story, 1998. 2015-IDIQ-Contract-White-Paper-National-Academy-of-Sciences. Job Order Contract Documents. JOC execution manual / JOC operations manual. Number of JOC contractors. Contractor requirements/qualifications/evaluation. JOC bidding process.

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