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Creating a JOC Coefficient?

Job Order Contracting

General / Prime Contractor Overhead. General insurances. Workmen’s compensations insurance. State unemployment insurance. Federal unemployment insurance. General / Prime Contractor Profit and risk. Payment Bond premium(s) (please note that Payment Bonds are required for task order.

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What Is an Insurance Endorsement? A Contractor’s Guide

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When working in construction, your insurance policy gets issued as a fairly standard contract. Like a basic construction agreement, you can upgrade or downgrade your insurance policy just as a customer might do with the fit and finish of a building. What is an insurance endorsement? How insurance endorsements work.

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Unit Price Construction Cost Estimating

Job Order Contracting

Another requirement to enable cost visibility, transparency, and management is a locally researched line-item unit price book database, organized using CSI Masterformat. To mitigate variables, the unit price cost database should only reflect the direct costs of labor, material, and equipment, fringes, and insurance.

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Understanding the Contractor’s Job Order Contract Coefficient

Job Order Contracting

A Job Order Contract Coefficient is a numerical factor that represents costs (generally indirect costs) not included in the unit price line items within the Unit Price Book, UPB, associated with the Job Order Contract. Subcontractors’ overhead and profit. Employee payroll taxes, insurance and fringe benefits.

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Job Order Contracting Training Note – JOC Coefficient

Job Order Contracting

to 1.20, that is applied to the TOTAL of a detailed line estimate for a JOC Project/Job Order, as created from the approved and current JOC Unit Price Book (UPB). A JOC coefficient is a factor, typically ranging from 0.80 The items to be considered when a contractor creates a JOC coefficient vary according to the specific JOC Program.

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JOC Tutorial #71 – Terms

Job Order Contracting

(a) “Adjustment factor” / “coefficient+ – job order contractor’s competitively bid adjustment to the organizations prices as published in the current unit price book. b) “Indefinite quantity” means one or more of the construction tasks listed in the unit price book. (c) The prices shall not include overhead and profit.

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Army Job Order Contracts FAIL to meet AFARS requirements MOST OF THE TIME

Job Order Contracting

The J OCPB (JOC Price Book: reflects the current local costs in detail for construction tasks expected to be performed in the geographical area of the base contract with the primary use of developing a detailed line-item price. This is a national average cost book that DOES NOT REFLECT LOCAL COSTS. 5117.9001 Definitions.

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