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Quantity Take-offs by Construction Estimating Services can benefit Builders & General Contractors

Chianelli Estimating

Is there a last minute bid opportunity that you need of assistance with? Do you have too many bids proposals to handle and not enough staff when a last minute “emergency” bid is due. They can provide a quantity take-off or a complete estimate or for those emergency bid occasions. Design-Build guideline costs

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Electrical Estimating Methods (RSMeans) - an exclusive estimating book for electrical estimators & contractors

Construction Cost Estimating

This edition is aimed at revealing recent labor–hour productivities and practices for procuring material prices compliant with legitimate industry standards and most excellent practices.

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Is construction a dirty business? If so, what can we do about it?

Construction Marketing Ideas

Last night, at the local Construction Specifications Canada chapter director’s meeting, one member well-connected to the industry, in describing the construction procurement scandal at the city’s major hospital , said that the stories there are reflected in many other places. “It’s a dirty business,” he said.

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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. the time of award.

Contract 100
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Job Order Contracts – A Review of Independent Audits

Job Order Contracting

The poorly designed SOWs have resulted in numerous change orders and cost overruns, occurring in 91% of the projects we reviewed during our 17-month audit period. This is because non-catalog items are priced at 110% versus catalog items priced using the JOC contractors’ lower bid percentages (50% – 71%). Approximately $1.9

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Every Owner Should Implement JOC – JOB ORDER CONTRACTING – for Renovation, Repair, Sustainabilty, and Maintenance Construction Projects

Building Information Management

What’s Wrong with Design Bid Build? Traditional design-bid-build,DBB, is costly, antagonistic, and simply inefficient. A Job Order Contracting (JOC) system is based on a competitively bid indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract between a facility owner and a construction contractor.

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Job Order Contract PROGRAM CHECKLIST

Building Information Management

In no instance should a project exceeded the established maximum (including change orders) and combining multiple projects into one to circumvent the contract maximum is also inappropriate. Policy and Process – A Job Order Contract Operations Manual should be a component of the contract.