Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Or… Job Order Contracting is a LEAN procurement and project delivery method for facilities repair, renovation, and minor new construction. Considering a JOC Program? Do your homework!

Procurement 100

Procurement Renovating Change Orders Overhead 100

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 6, 2021

The above represents the initial “concept” or “planning” stage, however, the steps must be repeated throughout the planning, procurement, and project delivery phases. What documentation, forms are required? In addition, collaborative teams, robust processes, and current actionable information are critical.

Life Cycle 130

Life Cycle Construction Renovating Procurement 130

Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Job Order Contracting 2021 is a competitively bid, firm, fixed-price, indefinite quantity contract, and integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery program for as-needed construction services. LEAN Job Order Contracting. RFPs issued by the owner can be responded to within a couple of weeks or less.

Contract 130

Contract Bidding Procurement CSI 130

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Traditional construction procurement and construction delivery methods, as well as ‘ad hoc’ daily facility management operations are unreliable and costly. Many commercial real property owners and facilities managers will require building competencies in all aspects of built environment life-cycle management.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Construction Change Orders Procurement 100

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 30, 2022

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., Reduced project related cost growth per change order. Shared boundaries.

Construction 222

Construction Project Management Engineering Management 222

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 1, 2019

Introduction – LEAN construction cost estimating, planning, procurement, and project delivery, drives optimal performance for the numerous repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects encountered by real property owners, facilities managers, and their service providers. Summary and the Path Forward.

Estimating 130

Estimating Construction Procurement Change Orders 130

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 31, 2021

The facilities management and AECOO sectors (architecture, engineering, construction, owner, and operator) have long suffered from poor productivity growth and high levels economic and environmental waste. Traditional project delivery involves a counter productive, non-integrated, approach to planning, procurement, and project delivery.

Construction 153

Construction Procurement Contract Budgeting 153

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 2, 2019

LEAN construction cost estimating, procurement, and project delivery jointly drive optimal, best value execution of the numerous repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects encountered by public sector real property owners, facilities managers, procurement professionals, and their service providers.

Estimating 100

Estimating Procurement Change Orders Comparison 100

Levelset

MARCH 11, 2022

Prioritizing a low bid over contractor performance is a lose-lose procurement strategy. And any savings on paper are usually lost mid-way through the project in change orders. Who’s responsible for low-bid procurement? Owners or developers frequently push for the low-bid procurement method in construction.

Bidding 98

Bidding Cash Flow Contractors Procurement 98

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 1, 2019

LEAN construction cost estimating, procurement, and project delivery, drives optimal performance for the numerous repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects encountered by real property owners, facilities managers, and their service providers. A certain degree of change management is also present.

Estimating 100

Estimating Procurement Change Orders Renovating 100

Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 19, 2017

OpenJOC uses common, standardized terms, definitions, and data architectures (CSI Masterformat licensee) to minimize cross discipline data gaps and errors and to improve collaboration. Proven collaborative LEAN Collaborative construction delivery best management practices, Standardized terms, definition, and data architectures.

Contract 100

Contract Life Cycle Renovating Management 100

Building Information Management

APRIL 20, 2016

It also requires shared/risk reward and common terms, definitions, and data architectures. Many of these characteristics are foreign to Owners and Contractors sole experienced with arcahic and unproductive processes and outcomes associated with low-bid procurement and dependent upon excessive change orders to complete construction projects.

Contract 40

Contract Bidding Change Orders Procurement 40

Building Information Management

APRIL 20, 2016

It also requires shared/risk reward and common terms, definitions, and data architectures. Many of these characteristics are foreign to Owners and Contractors sole experienced with arcahic and unproductive processes and outcomes associated with low-bid procurement and dependent upon excessive change orders to complete construction projects.

Contract 40

Contract Bidding Change Orders Procurement 40

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 19, 2016

Timely, accurate, repeatable, and verifiable information based upon standardized terms, definitions, and data architectures. The importance of Job Order Contract performance measurement cannot be understated. How many cycles were required for owner/contractor negotiations per task order? Shorter procurement times.

Renovating 100

Renovating Life Cycle Contract Estimating 100

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Senior level management and all facilities, procurement, planning, and engineering/architecture/construction professionals must work in an environment that is collaborative, transparency, and prior business process are challenged and continuously improved. They fail to understand their roles in the facility management process.

Management 40

Management Contract Life Cycle Architecture 40

Building Information Management

DECEMBER 13, 2016

While a higher level of competency, experience, and commitment are required to implement successful Job Order Contracts, benefits outweigh any resource needs. 4BT is a veteran-owned small business with senior professionals having decades of experience supporting, managing, and providing services for Job Order Contracting.

Contract 40

Contract Estimating CSI Software 40

Building Information Management

DECEMBER 13, 2016

While a higher level of competency, experience, and commitment are required to implement successful Job Order Contracts, benefits outweigh any resource needs. 4BT is a veteran-owned small business with senior professionals having decades of experience supporting, managing, and providing services for Job Order Contracting.

Contract 40

Contract Estimating CSI Software 40

Building Information Management

JANUARY 15, 2016

Experienced owners, contractors, procurement managers, architects, or engineers agree that early and ongoing collaboration among dedicated and experience stakeholders generates the best construction outcomes in terms of quality, timeliness, and maximized return on dollars expended.

Management 40

Management Renovating Cash Flow Life Cycle 40

Building Information Management

JULY 30, 2015

Though leverage facility best management practices such as job order contracting and supporting technologies is currently limited to a small percentage of the AECOO sector (Architecture, engineering, Construction, Operations, Owner), the benefits are both real and necessary in order to support economic and environmental viability.

Renovating 40

Renovating Sustainability Contract Estimating 40

Construction Marketing Ideas

JULY 23, 2016

In the US for federal and much state and local government work, qualifications-based-selection (QBS) has become the law, avoiding the race to the bottom for price competitiveness within architectural and engineering practices. However, QBS is a double-edged sword.

Documentation 48

Documentation Change Orders Organization Procurement 48

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Volumes have been written about the fragmentation of the AECOO (architecture, engineering, construction, operator, owner) and Facilities Management sectors and their relative high levels of economic and environmental waste. Eliminating redundant costs and activities and 2. Aligning strategies and objectives with processes and workflows.

Management 227

Management Procurement Environment Life Cycle 227

Building Information Management

JULY 30, 2015

Public sector and multi-building facility routinely scope, procure, award, and execute thousands of renovation, repair, maintenance, sustainability, and “minor” new construction projects. Unit price book: Cost estimating and pricing for individual projects (task orders) is determined from a line item unit price book (UPB).

Renovating 40

Renovating Sustainability Contract Construction 40

Building Information Management

MARCH 8, 2016

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. Shared risk/reward.

Contract 40

Contract Management Estimating Renovating 40

Building Information Management

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Training and supporting technology exists, as well as standardized cost data architectures (example – e4Clicks Project Estimator). Significant reduction in change orders. Shorter procurement and overall project times. Lean is not new, nor is it complicated. JOC and IPD, for example are over 20 years old.

Construction 40

Construction Change Orders United States Commissioning 40

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Interoperability is a common “buzzword” used whenever you here a discussion about improving productivity with the AECOO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owners, Operations) industry sector. until it shifts its focus exclusively to culture and process change.

Renovating 45

Renovating Life Cycle Sustainability Products 45

Building Information Management

MAY 3, 2012

While accurate, timely, and transparent cost estimating is critical to the success of any renovation, repair, sustainability, or new construction project, most construction cost estimators (over 55%) continue to rely primarily upon manual methods, hard copy documents, or electronic spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.

Estimating 40

Estimating Software Software Construction 40

Building Information Management

JULY 26, 2016

Value-based procurement. Common terms, definitions, and data architectures. Learn from the outcomes of the processes and improve problem areas (transport, inventory, motion, waiting, defects/rework/change orders. Focus upon outcomes. Transparency – financial, planning and technical. Shared risk/reward.

Construction 40

Construction Contract Life Cycle Procurement 40

Building Information Management

JULY 26, 2016

Value-based procurement. Common terms, definitions, and data architectures. Learn from the outcomes of the processes and improve problem areas (transport, inventory, motion, waiting, defects/rework/change orders. Focus upon outcomes. Transparency – financial, planning and technical. Shared risk/reward.

Construction 40

Construction Contract Life Cycle Procurement 40

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The FM mismanagement problem defined simply is the lack of leadership among real property owners and the associated lack of robust, programmatic processes across the AECOO sector (AECOO-Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner, Operator). The 5 Essential Components of a Data Strategy.” 23.53% over 2020.

Aconex 189

Aconex Aconex Remodeling Budgeting 189

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

A construction cost estimate must be trusted and what is needed by a real property owners, architects, engineers, builders, or oversight groups to plan, procure, and execute a repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build projects. Each task has a description and should be organized using the CSI MasterFormat data architecture.

Estimating 150

Estimating Construction Renovating CSI 150

Building Information Management

JANUARY 17, 2012

At this level BIM’s value is primarily to Architects, Architectural Engineers and Business Development Professionals, as well as Owners working to design, market, and construct new facilities. Major cultural change within the AECOO sector, 2. Standardized taxonomies and data architectures, and.

BIM 78

BIM Visualization Life Cycle Software 78

Building Information Management

JUNE 8, 2015

BIM (Building Information Modeling), cloud computing, and social media are disruptive technologies which are altering the basic foundations of the AECOO sector (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owners, and Operations). altering the basic foundations of the AECOO sector (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owners, and.

BIM 40

BIM Life Cycle Contract Environment 40

Job Order Contracting

MAY 12, 2018

AECOO: Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner, Operator/Operation). Forget BIM, forget Big Data… the single factor causing massive inefficiencies across that AECOO sector is the lack of the consistent application of proven LEAN construction delivery methods and associated processes.

Products 100

Products Construction Legal Change Orders 100

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Job Order Contracting (JOC), and similar collaborative construction delivery methods can be seen in the top right quadrant. BIM is seen a method to address low productivity and waste management commonly associated with the AECOO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner, Operations) sector.

BIM 40

BIM Environment Management Life Cycle 40

Building Information Management

JUNE 26, 2016

Regardless of the LEAN construction method selected – for example Integrated Project Delivery, IPD for major new construction, or Job Order Contracting, JOC for renovation, repair, maintenance, or minor new construction – the primary focus is uopn highly effective collaboration between the owner, the architect, and contractor(s), etc.

Construction 40

Construction Procurement Life Cycle Renovating 40

Construction Cost Estimating

AUGUST 21, 2010

This technologically advanced new version will be highly beneficial for the architectural, engineering, construction and capital project owner industry. By using a single scalable database the software integrates all project management functions and informations to improve speed and accuracy of project final cost s.

Subcontracting 40

Subcontracting Software Software Change Orders 40

Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Owner (AECOO) sector must engage in collaborative construction delivery methods in over achieve any measurable performance improvement in the life-cycle management of the built environment. Building Information Management, Model and Modeling. All working together.

BIM 58

BIM Life Cycle Modeling Construction 58