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Job Order Contracting Best Management Practices – Contractor Evaluation

Job Order Contracting

Did the Contractor thoroughly investigate the project/work order requirements? Was the bid package submitted complete? Did the Contractor make proposal/work order revisions as directed and resubmit on time? Did Contractor comply with all the safety requirements for the project/work order?

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Preconstruction Meeting: A Quick Guide to Success   

Autodesk Construction Cloud

They ensure everyone is on the same page from the get-go, on topics as diverse as how change orders how the chain of communication will be handled on site. They also try to identify special considerations and forestall potential areas of complication that can lead to change orders.

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How do you market construction services effectively in a corrupt environment?

Construction Marketing Ideas

With this blog’s international readership, I received an inquiry observing that in his area, procurement rules require purportedly open, public competitive bidding — but corruption is rampant. In other words, there is a veneer of legitimacy and “low bid wins the job” but the game is rigged. and the U.S.,

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#108:  Replacement Contractor Issues

NH Construction Law

At the bid stage, even with the original plans and specs and any change orders or updated drawings in hand, the completion contractor won’t be able to spot every potential error in the existing work, and so will pad his bid – or insist on a cost-plus arrangement – to protect himself against unseen issues.

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Understanding the Performance and Monitoring Phase of Construction

Levelset

Every project involves planning, designing, bidding, hiring, and more — and these are all parts of stages. The architect may also assist the project owner in the bidding and contractor selection process during this phase. Once a construction project is finally taking shape, it hits the performance and monitoring phase. .

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

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

When all of these impacts are combined, they have had a devastating effect on the cost to complete a federal project and have made it almost impossible to estimate how much to bid on an upcoming project. If an agency refuses to insert the clause after being requested to do so, a bid protest (filed pre-bid) should be considered.