ProcurementExpress.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Construction teams face unique procurement challenges due to the complex nature of the business. As technology changes the game, procurement is becoming a strategic juggling act. With that in mind, we’ll look at three of the biggest challenges that construction teams deal with and how they affect procurement planning.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

filed a protest with the contracting officer asserting that Sanford was not a small business because it received significant contract awards between 2019 and 2023, which, when averaged, exceeded the procurement’s applicable size standard. The contracting officer forwarded the protest to the cognizant SBA Area Office (Area Office).

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Construction Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The government’s bid to “transform public procurement” in the UK has now reached the statute books, with the Procurement Act 2023 receiving Royal Assent on 26 October. The relevant Green Paper – Transforming Public Procurement – was published three years ago so the Cabinet Office should be up to speed on the secondary legislation.

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Construction Law

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The Cabinet Office has announced new measures to deliver social value through public procurement in ‘Taking Account of Social Value in the Award of Central Government Contracts’. Before we get those hopes too high, the Cabinet Office hasn’t actually said that value for money will no longer be the priority.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

the Government Accountability Office (GAO) upheld the U.S. The protestor argued that the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Hearing and Appeals (OHA) decision to vacate an earlier SBA Area Office’s size determination that found the awardee to be an eligible small business concern required that the USCG terminate the award.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

More experienced engineers in the AEC industry may use this blog as a catalyst to engage new engineers at your firm—as talking points or pass-along information. After a time I transferred to the firm’s Raleigh, North Carolina office to build a structural engineering department in their MEP focused office.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The delivery order contained numerous fixed-price line items, some of which the contractor needed to procure from an outside vendor. Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, the vendor’s prices for two of these line items had risen dramatically, and the contractor could not procure those items from another vendor.

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Construction Cost Estimating

JANUARY 19, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. The software can manage the complete project lifecycle , procurement, bids and proposals, financials, employees, payroll, equipment. ProContractorMX Connect – Generate the latest project information in the office or in the field. Blog Archive. adsense analytic. ProContractorMX 2.5

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Between the challenges of working remotely, connecting the office and field, and collaborating with external stakeholders, teams need tools to keep them on the same page at every stage of the project. . Read more about the feature in our blog. ? . Collaboration takes hard work—especially on complex projects.

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Rory Woolsey

JANUARY 16, 2012

Rory Woolseys Construction Estimating Blog. The good news is (I think) that I have decided I would start a blog on these topics in construction estimating. The Plan is to keep the blog up weekly which means even with my full time job (with the Gordian Group) I will most likely have to find some weekend time to keep this going.

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Rory Woolsey

MAY 31, 2012

Rory Woolseys Construction Estimating Blog. With this blog I will answer the “markup” question for an average facilities project and try and keep it simple but still useful. Overhead: Overhead is the markup for the general contractor’s home office overhead. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 14, 2020

This blog post is an update to my June 6th post, Two New LEED Pilot Credits Respond to COVID-19 , describing that the U.S. This includes the procurement of cleaning and disinfecting products, procedures and training for cleaning personnel, occupant education, and services that are within the project and site management’s control.

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Rory Woolsey

APRIL 4, 2012

Rory Woolseys Construction Estimating Blog. All direct costs are then adjusted to include home office overhead and profit for the installing contractor. Rory is currently with The Gordian Group, leaders in expediting construction procurement through Job Order Contracting. Search This Blog. Blog Archives.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

JULY 22, 2016

Bernie Heer , in a blog posting for residential contractors , reminds us of a marketing and sales fundamental — if you focus on the (emotional) benefits, you’ll more likely sell the service than if you allocate your communications to product/service features.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 26, 2014

In addition to hiring locally, PNC’s project team is procuring products and services from local businesses, including PPG Industries, Inc., Mid Atlantic Blog-July-2014 LEED Pittsburgh PNC Sustainability' based engineering firm; and Paladino & Company, a Seattle-based green building consultant, among others.

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Construction Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, since 30 September new rules announced by the Cabinet Office in July stipulate that all firms bidding for government contracts worth more than £5 million a year must commit to achieving net zero by 2050. Firms which fail to do so will be excluded from bidding for the contract,” the Cabinet Office promises. Nick Barrett.

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Fieldwire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Electronic marketing methods might include email communications, newsletters, websites, blogs, and social media. Information technology in both office and field settings can often improve efficiency and productivity. E-commerce has also helped firms procure materials and address supply chain challenges. Clear Communication.

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Construction Law

AUGUST 5, 2019

Another scathing report from a parliamentary select committee has further shredded the remnants of the UK’s reputation for infrastructure procurement. The PAC report following that evidence session has been released and pulls few punches in its denunciation of the management of the project. There would be much for an inquiry to mull over.

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BIM & Beam

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Share the most up to date project information with the office, shop and field. Accurate BOM procures only needed quantity. The Lucas residential development in Boston, USA: check out this recent blog post. Reduce waste in shop and field production. Extend fabrication workflows to better plan, coordinate and execute on site.

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Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Rory Woolseys Construction Estimating Blog. A project cost should also include the indirect costs such as site specific overhead (indirectly attributable to all the project direct costs and can be 5% to 15% of project cost), home office overhead, profit, bond, sales taxes and even certain contingencies. Search This Blog.

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NH Construction Law

JUNE 30, 2020

A few years back I blogged (#24) on the Spearin doctrine, which holds that adherence to government-imposed design specifications absolves the contractor from contract liability to the government when the finished product fails to perform as intended. Office of Personnel Mgmt. ’” In re U.S. 3d 42, 70 (D.C.

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Construction Law

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Under the new regime businesses that cannot demonstrate prompt payment face being cut out of public sector procurement processes. The Cabinet Office recognises the difficulty of raising cash to finance the hit to cash flows that will be suffered by main contractors, but says the 75% concession is temporary, perhaps for a year.

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Construction Law

MARCH 31, 2021

One thing that can be confidently said about the newly announced National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) is that it won’t be funding very much of the procurement of the UK’s national infrastructure.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Failure to notify the contracting officer in writing when the prime fails to acquire performance from the small business concerns named in the prime’s proposal or whose pricing was used in preparing the proposal. Contracting officers are to consider the totality of the circumstances when assessing compliance.

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The Constructor

MARCH 25, 2012

Structural frames are mainly used for offices, car parks and retail developments. Use of Precast Concrete in frames: There are two main types of precast building frame. The structural frame consists of slabs, beams and columns. The cross-wall frame consists of floor slabs and solid walls. It is used mainly for hotels, schools and hospitals.

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The Constructor

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

There should be good transport facilities such as railway, bus service, for going to office, college, market, etc. The site should be in fully developed area or in the area which has potential of development. The site should command a good view of landscape such a hill, river, lake, etc.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 15, 2016

Determine, a global provider of cloud-based contract lifecycle management, will invest over $720,000 to lease and equip a 9,000-square-foot office in Carmel, which will officially become Determine’s global headquarters. million in revenue in the third quarter of fiscal year 2016.

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Construction Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Public sector procurement has always been a focus of interest to Construction Law and in recent years recognition of the need for reform has been growing. The Cabinet Office Procurement Playbook which was brought out in February this year is the most recent attempt to institute reforms that are widely accepted as urgently needed.

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The Constructor

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

However, the towers are still the tallest twin buildings and office building in the world. It contains offices and the Shanghai Grand Hyatt hotel. It has been hailed as one of the Seven New Wonders of the World and Seven Wonders of Engineering (Discovery Channel, 2005). It is the exact height of the former World Trade Center.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 7, 2016

The location delivers several processes for Tyco’s businesses, including sourcing and procurement, customer service, research and development, information technology and finance. Cleary has called the complex, located adjacent to Cork’s City Hall, “the smartest building in Ireland.”

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

As well as lacking the political will to maintain sensible levels of infrastructure investment, the UK seems to have problems with procuring large projects or large scale programmes of work. Regular readers of Construction Law will be familiar with this theme.

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The Constructor

JANUARY 21, 2012

Another example of idealization is office loading. Think of the contents of a typical office: desks, chairs, filling cabinets, people etc. However this is very inconvenient to analyse as individual components, so it is idealized as a uniform loading as shown below. fortunately most of the idealization has been done by the code authors.

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The Constructor

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

million m2) of office space.[ Construction of the World Trade Center involved excavating a large amount of material which was used in making Battery Park City on the west side of Lower Manhattan. The complex was located in the heart of New York City’s downtown financial district and contained 13.4 million square feet (1.24

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

AUGUST 15, 2023

Her extensive experience in program management, risk assessment, and cost analysis has made her instrumental in expanding the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management (EPCM) Program for Pond. Jamie Berzon Chief Technology Officer, S. Subscribe to our blog to make sure you never miss an update! Wilson & Co.,

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Fieldwire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Even the repeat trades are unlikely to staff the project with all the same personnel as the last project, and work practices tend to vary from office to office, even within the same company. Again, site conditions change and local ordinances dictate a slightly different look, all leading to changes in procurement and planning.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 29, 2014

At the same time, Toyota will expand the Toyota Technical Center (TTC) in Michigan to accommodate the relocation of direct procurement from Erlanger, KY, to its campus in York Township near Ann Arbor. Also, the following Toyota units will not be impacted at this time: Toyota regional field offices and Lexus area offices.

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ProcurementExpress.com

APRIL 15, 2019

Procurement teams will need to consider pre-fabrication and 3D printing along with traditional sourcing methods. According to McKinsey , the lion’s share of spending is going toward back-office technology like SaaS products or cloud computing, as well as building and modeling software. 3D Printing and Procurement.

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