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Collaborative Construction Procurement Planning and Project Delivery = Best Value Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

Collaborative Construction Procurement Planning and Project Delivery is a robust process for consistently achieving long-term best value for all participants and stakeholders. Parametric cost modeling, area cost factors, location factors, etc., Tools and services should be procured to support owner requirements.

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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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Better Manage Construction Costs Schedules and Quality

Job Order Contracting

The fundamental reason for poor outcomes is the failure to implement and properly manage robust and integrated LEAN planning, procurement, and project delivery processes. It is defined within and Lean environment government by a long-term multi-party agreement and associated written Operations Manual / Execution Guide.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and team. The benefits of strategic collaboration vs. traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery are well documented and partially listed below (Chan et al., Conceptual model of partnering and alliancing. Shared boundaries. Anvuur, A.

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Job Order Contracting Doesn’t Have to be Complex or Expensive

Job Order Contracting

The Design-Bid-Build (DBB) model has perpetuated an antagonistic inefficient environment for decades. While there are many reasons why projects fail, it is the project delivery method and owner leadership and culture that ultimately is the primary cause.

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

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Kingspan panels help earn LEED points for energy modeling, lower energy use, energy intensity, recycled content, and reduction of volatile organic compounds. 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.

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£8bn race starts for Northumbrian Water AMP8 deal

Construction Enquirer

Northumbrian is joining the shift towards an embedded client collaboration model, based on an ‘enterprise’ approach involving shared a vision and values with contractors and joint incentivisation. It also is using the procurement race to create new capacity in the water industry and support market entrants.

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