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Winning More Construction Bids: A Complete Guide

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Construction bids are critical to winning more work, so it pays to have a solid understanding of what they entail and what you can do to improve your bidding performance. . In this comprehensive guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about construction bids. What is the Construction Bidding Process?

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#100:  Dealing With Rising Costs

NH Construction Law

Another approach is to negotiate with subcontractors or suppliers to lock in prices for an extended period of time, thereby kicking the price increase risk downstream – but in the present volatile market, subs and suppliers are increasingly reluctant to hold their prices for long, typically not more than 60 or 90 days.

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Job Order Contract Program Implementation

Job Order Contracting

Historical and planned budgets also are evaluated to assure long term, consistent execution of the JOC program. Budgeting and Funding. Negotiations and Source Selection. Owner technical personnel participate in contract negotiations as members of purchasing’s technical team. Multiple Awards. Sample JOB ORDER CONTRACT SOP.

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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Design-Bid-Build. Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) delivery process with design, bidding, and construction in separate, sequential steps. Construction contract is generally awarded to the lowest bidder and/or lowest qualified builder, who then utilizes the subcontractors included in his or her bid. Advantages.

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On-call Construction versus Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

There is not an official definition, but MRSC has used this: On-Call (Work Order) Contracts (OC/WO Contracts) are bid and awarded without a specific public works project or scope of work in mind, but rather are categorized around general types of anticipated work or trades. Bid Bond Required? Legislation to address this gap is needed.

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A New Resource for JOC – Job Order Contracting Services

Building Information Management

Historic and budgeted volume and project type are reviewed. We can help with a range of support from telephone help line support to full proposal review, reporting, and negotiation with contractors. Competitive pricing through the use of a competitively-bid coefficient applied to a unit price book (UPB). Ongoing Assessment.

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Construction RFI: A Comprehensive Guide [And Template] 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

RFIs are necessary and act as a tool to reduce conflicts, ambiguities and gaps in knowledge during the bidding process and early stages of the construction. Keeping RFIs low relies on knowing what an RFI is as opposed to RFT, RFQ or RFP. . They help eliminate the need for corrective measures that are often costly. Standardize the Process.