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8 essential steps for effective project cost estimation and budgeting

Fieldwire

To say that winning bids is the key to success in construction is a half-truth. Subcontractors getting awarded a contract spells financial disaster if the bid is too high to be competitive or too low to be profitable. Bidding on projects you have yet to gain experience in can broaden your horizons.

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What is JOC

Job Order Contracting

Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) construction delivery was too inefficient for the large numbers of renovation, repair, and sustainment/maintenance projects. Now JOC programs can be supported by multiple suppliers of unit prices books, software types, and associated services. What is JOC – A Definition.

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Job Order Contracting – Lean Construction History

Job Order Contracting

Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) construction delivery was too inefficient for the large numbers of renovation, repair, and sustainment/maintenance projects. Subsequently State, County, and Local Governments, Transportation, Education, and Healthcare entities began to use Job Order Contracting.

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What is Job Order Contacting – JOC ? Efficient Project Delivery Methods

Building Information Management

Reliant on a Unit Price Book (UPB) and competitively-bid coefficient to establish pricing structure. move away from the low capture ratios and low profit world of traditional design-hard bid-build and achieve reasaonble payment for your effort and service. Don’t bid contractors against each other at the delivery order level.

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Every Owner Should Implement JOC – JOB ORDER CONTRACTING – for Renovation, Repair, Sustainabilty, and Maintenance Construction Projects

Building Information Management

What’s Wrong with Design Bid Build? Traditional design-bid-build,DBB, is costly, antagonistic, and simply inefficient. A Job Order Contracting (JOC) system is based on a competitively bid indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract between a facility owner and a construction contractor. JOC Fundamentals.

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Sustainability of DOD Buildings – Reuse of Existing Buildings

Building Information Management

Differences in GHG in alternatives resulted from the amount of new building materials introduced and transportation of demolition debris. Cost estimates and construction bid requests should include materials quantities in addition to costs to evaluate and validate GHG impacts. Automated Technical Evaluations. Energy Policy Act of 2005.

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Sustainability of DOD Buildings – Reuse of Existing Buildings

Building Information Management

Differences in GHG in alternatives resulted from the amount of new building materials introduced and transportation of demolition debris. Cost estimates and construction bid requests should include materials quantities in addition to costs to evaluate and validate GHG impacts. Automated Technical Evaluations. Energy Policy Act of 2005.