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Public Sector Facilities Stewardship and Data-driven Decision Making

Job Order Contracting

Low bid is an acceptable form of procuring repair, renovation, maintenance, or new construction services. Planning, procurement, and project delivery can be accomplished by disparate teams that lack integration through their respective life cycles. Large, traditional software/services providers provide the best solutions.

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Controlling Construction Costs, Rocket Science, and Time Travel

Job Order Contracting

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for major new construction and LEAN Job Order Contractin g for repair, renovation, maintenance, and less design intensive new construction are proven programmatic processes that can save 30%-40%+ versus design-bid-build (DBB), CM@R, design-bulder (DB) and other more traditional forms.

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IDIQ Construction Contract Guide

Job Order Contracting

Initial basic intent was to speed procurement via the pre-selection of a pool of pre-qualified contractors, however, in may cases has evolved into an elimination of checks and bases associated with traditional procurement methods. No ability to subcontract—limited to trade specified in the contract. T and M Basics. •

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HS2 to hold bidders day for subcontractors

Construction Enquirer

HS2 is planning a meet the main contractor bidders day ahead of the next tranche of subcontract work tenders to progress civil engineering works and station fit-outs. The ‘Meet the Contractor’ event is designed to help businesses understand how to get ‘HS2-ready’ so they are in the best possible position to bid for upcoming work.

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Competitive Bid Estimating for construction - A brief overview

Construction Cost Estimating

A competitive bidding process, the most prevalent procurement method, used to control construction costs for owners. In traditional design-bid-build, price is considered to be the primary factor for determining who will win the project. Construction bidding process starts with a set of contract documents.

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Job Order Contracting in Canada

Building Information Management

Job Order Contracting (JOC) was born of the United States military contracting world, where small construction projects were taking up to 18 months and 20 per cent of project budget to design and procure. Contractors bid a coefficient, which is applied to the UPB to arrive at contractual prices.

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Minimizing Waste and Improving Construction Productivity

Building Information Management

Performance and value-based vs. low-bid. BIM is NOT about design. It is a competitively procured, fixed unit price, indefinite quantity construction procurement and delivery method. Life-cycle cost vs. first-cost focus. BIM value is NOT 3D pretty pictures, but data visualization and associated decision support. .