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LEAN Procurement via Collaborative Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

LEAN Procurement via Collaborative Job Order Contracting provides significantly improve outcomes for all participants and stakeholders. There are several core elements associated with LEAN Procurement via Collaborative Job Order Contracting for real property owners, construction contractors, and building users.

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Construction Law: Jan/Feb 2024

Construction Law

Editor’s comment Whitehall governance problem at heart of procurement inadequacies? Editor Nick Barrett asks how long the UK can get away with the governance problem said by the head of the National Audit Office to be embedded at the heart of Whitehall when it comes to managing large scale procurements.

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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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An open request to the author of the article: ’How Building Information Modeling Saved One University $10 Million’ – Please substantiate your claim!

DebunkTheBIM

There’s been a great little ‘article’ circling the web recently, claiming ‘How Building Information Modeling Saved One University $10 Million’. Is there no danger in letting unchallenged articles like this spread over the global BIM networks? Junky Data on BIM to feed the BIM junkie in you? The client? Or would they have shrunk?

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The seller-doer model and the challenge of thinking like a professional with business development

Construction Marketing Ideas

At the SMPS Ontario meeting where national president Paula Ryan discussed the seller-doer model. The seller-doer model was back in vogue; but this time it wasn’t just rainmakers; everyone was expected to get into the act. So the seller-doer model made sense from the procurement perspective, as well.

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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’. The new model means government departments have to assess and score suppliers on the social value they would generate if awarded a contract.

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Construction Law: March 2024

Construction Law

News Our regular news round up includes a call from insurance companies for pilot projects to find investment models for green infrastructure; failure of another legal challenge to the Stonehenge project; and a warning that the new Building Safety Regulator is looking for a high profile prosecution to make a point.