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How to Increase Safety Adherence Through New-Hire Orientation & Onboarding

Construction Business Owner

The construction industry continues to invest heavily in safety management. Safety performance affects your ability to bid and win work and to negotiate contracts. Smart contractors understand that safety must be both a core value and a strategic priority.

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Winning More Construction Bids: A Complete Guide

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Construction bids are critical to winning more work, so it pays to have a solid understanding of what they entail and what you can do to improve your bidding performance. . In this comprehensive guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about construction bids. What is the Construction Bidding Process?

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Auditor Recommended JOC Program Best Practices

Job Order Contracting

Negotiating individual projects is critical to ensuring quality work at fair and reasonable prices. You should establish guidelines for evaluating and negotiating Job Order Contract proposals. If low bid is not selected, have a document separate from the scoring sheets with a thorough explanation. Excessive use of consultants.

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Construction Estimating Made Easy

Viewpoint Construction Technology

There are many reasons to adopt integrated construction software , including flexibility, organization, and project management. It should be a part of your strategy to win more bids. If you’re still using paper to estimate and bid, you know it can be a slow moving, time draining process. Bid Day tool.

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Commercial Construction Project Planning: 3 Warning Signs Your Budget Might Go Bust

HardHatChat

While we do our best to provide budget estimates that are as accurate as possible, there are inevitably times when projects bids come in higher than the client expected, or that unanticipated costs push the job over-budget. Competitively Bidding the Project.

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JOC Program Guide – Job Order Contract Considerations

Job Order Contracting

The JOC Program Guide provides an overview of strategic and tactical considerations for the planning, development, bidding, awarding, execution, and monitoring of a Job Order Contract. Advertising, bidding, and awarding a JOC. Facility management / Engineering role in a JOC. Request your complimentary copy… [link].

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Why Job Order Contracting was developed

Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting (JOC), an alternative to the sealed bid method of procuring facility construction and repair services, was developed by the Federal Government in the 1980s to reduce the processing time and administrative effort required for smaller construction jobs ( Source ). Enable cost management, 5.) Improve quality, 3.)

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