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Commercial Construction Tips: Six Best Practice Resolutions for 2011

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Don’t always take the lowest bid. The low-bidding general contractor was often in over its head, which meant deadlines were missed or work was shoddy and another, more experienced GC was brought in to finish the job—at an additional cost. While bidding on the commercial construction remodel of a 500+ sq.

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Consistent Delivery of On-time, On-Budget, Quality Renovation, Repair, and Construction

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Best Value Procurement Competitively Bid. Designed to Accomplish Small-Medium Size, Multi-trade, Minor Construction, Repair and Remodel Projects, or Minor New Construction. Associated Documents and Reports (JOC Operations Manual, Notice to Bidders, Bid Forms, RFP, Proposal Form, Negotiations Records, Close-out Form/Package).

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3 Tips to a Successful High-End Restaurant Construction Project

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Recently, Englewood completed the 23,000-square-foot Harry Carays 7 th Inning Stretch and Chicago Sports Museum at Chicagos famed Water Tower Place, remodeled the 30-year-old, five-star Spiaggia on Michigan Avenue and helped rebrand and reimagine Fultons on The River into River Roast in Chicagos popular River North neighborhood.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: A Savings Analysis!

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However, I received many comments and questions on the “Negotiating JOC” blog from last week that really should be answered. Ed Carrigan asked: “Do you believe there is a savings between JOC program and a bidding process (design-bid-build)? ” Thanks for the question, Ed.

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Job Order Contract Execution Guide – Sample Template

Job Order Contracting

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. PLEASE NOTE: In occasions where the contractor is asked to provide materials, equipment, and/or subcontract pricing for work by direct bidding that may, or.

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Will cutting your prices save, or kill, your business?

Construction Marketing Ideas

If these points are valid in the publishing business, you would think they would be equally valid in the architectural, engineering and construction industry — but far too many practitioners are wedded to the concept: “Low bid wins the job” and they race to the bottom in an absurd competitive frenzy.

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Variations on the one-legged sales call: Can you control the story?

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Worse, they have the perfect “out” to ignore the proposal or — worse — take data provided by you to shop around and even negotiate with the vendor they had preferred to do business with in the first place. If they start asking about prices or asking for a bid, remind them what they were told on the phone.