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Best Practices for Developing a Contractor’s Request for Compensation

Best Practices Construction Law

My mentor and good friend, Cordell Parvin , has over the years shared with me some great best practices for contractors—whether talking about bid protests, accidents on the jobsite, or filing a claim. Recently, Cordell sent me a list of items that all contractors should review when developing a request for additional compensation.

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Federal Construction Contractors Are Faced with the Double Whammy of the Pandemic and Price Escalation: What Can Be Done?

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

Delays to projects were frequent, but contractors were told that although they would be granted time extensions, these extensions would be non-compensable. The government recognized the financial impact to individuals who could not work and literally printed money to fund financial stimulus and extended unemployment compensation.

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Collaborative Construction Solution

Job Order Contracting

Traditional contracting methods such as design-bid-build, and even somewhat newer developments such as design-build typically involve the non-owner participants providing lump-sum price based an owner’s proposed requirements. Furthermore, compensation is performance-based and depended upon the final outcome.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

In fact, project managers should worry about implementing more safe practices because it can affect the way they bid on jobs. A safe work environment is one of the most straight forward ways to decrease workers compensation expenses. change orders. If your companies EMR rating is 1.0 ” Agreed! January 2009.

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Provide Notice (and 10 Other Tasks) When Pursuing a Construction Claim

Best Practices Construction Law

Review change orders and correspondence. You are going to go back to the original scope of work to see if that was well defined, and changes have been made either in the field or as part of a negotiated, detailed change. You need to confirm that the changes procedure in the contract was followed. If not, why not?

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Job Order Contract Execution Guide – Sample Template

Job Order Contracting

A Job Order Contract Execution Guide is a required element for any successful, best management practice JOC Program. The following template is provide for sample purposes only and should not be used a legally bidding document without through review and modification by appropriate Owner legal counsel. of Change Order is required.

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A Recipe for Retaining Your Purchasing Talent

Pro Builder

Lack of appreciation also comes in the form of compensation. Purchasing is not about how efficiently you can award new communities or process change orders. 3 Ingredients. Show Appreciation. Lack of appreciation can come in many forms. Sometimes it’s not having the authority to make decisions.