Remove Bidding Remove Change Orders Remove Legal Remove Life Cycle
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Improve Construction Productivity Via Relationship Management

Job Order Contracting

Best Value Procurement – Put aside cost low bid/lowest technically acceptable procurement strategies. Consider total cost of the project/program, including change orders, potential for legal disputes, and especially prior performance on similar projects. Learn more? Link to Articles and Research Studies.

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Efficient Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Construction Basics

Job Order Contracting

Even though the majority of costs (approximately 80% of total life-cycle costs) occur during the operational and maintenance (O&M) phase, decision-making is largely made based upon lowest bidder versus best value as well as current year impacts versus multi-year considerations. Job Order Contracting. The Obstacles.

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Job Order Contracting Done Right! Open, Best Value, Efficient

Job Order Contracting

OpenJOC Job Order Contracting Framework embeds LEAN best management practices and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for cost, performance, and time, with an overall focus upon best value outcomes. Leverage of local expertise and domain knowledge combined with global oversight, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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Why the majority of CMMS System Implemenations Fail

Building Information Management

How many Owners still wallow in design-bid-build and change-orders, legal disputes, and poor quality vs. collaborative efficient methods such as Job Order Contracting and Integrated Project Delivery? Facility Life-cycle Management Framework. That’s the hard question.

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BIM Strategy, Collaboration, and Interoperablity… Getting it right from square one.

Building Information Management

The construction industry (architecture, engineering, construction, operations/facility management, business product manufacturers, oversight and regulatory groups), like most other sectors, is in a state of rapid change. The drivers for change include environmental, economic, and technology factors. Job Order Contracting Process.

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BIM Collaboration – Fact or Fiction?

Building Information Management

The design-bid-build construction delivery method and associated practices such of awarding contracts to the lowest bidder do little more than a fuel to the fires of waste, protracted project timelines, change orders, and legal disputes.

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Sustainability of DOD Buildings – Reuse of Existing Buildings

Building Information Management

Cost estimates and construction bid requests should include materials quantities in addition to costs to evaluate and validate GHG impacts. Incorporate life-cycle GHG emissions analysis into DoD MILCON and SRM programs. Virtual elimination of legal disputes, claims and mitigation of change orders.