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The High Cost of Low Bids: When Contractors Compete on Price, Everyone Loses

Levelset

Prioritizing a low bid over contractor performance is a lose-lose procurement strategy. And any savings on paper are usually lost mid-way through the project in change orders. Who’s responsible for low-bid procurement? Owners or developers frequently push for the low-bid procurement method in construction.

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How to survive and overcome inflation and rising construction costs

Lets Build

Free eBook: Quick guide to Lean practices for construction professionals 7 ways to minimise the impacts of construction inflation As inflation continues to affect the construction industry worldwide, we must find ways to counteract it or risk losing our already slim profit margins. Understanding why they happen is the key to success.

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LEAN construction cost estimating

Job Order Contracting

Introduction – LEAN construction cost estimating, planning, procurement, and project delivery, drives optimal performance for the numerous repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects encountered by real property owners, facilities managers, and their service providers. Are you ready?

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Job Order Contracting - Untitled Article

Job Order Contracting

LEAN construction cost estimating, procurement, and project delivery jointly drive optimal, best value execution of the numerous repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects encountered by public sector real property owners, facilities managers, procurement professionals, and their service providers.

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Job Order Contracting - Untitled Article

Job Order Contracting

LEAN construction cost estimating, procurement, and project delivery, drives optimal performance for the numerous repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects encountered by real property owners, facilities managers, and their service providers. Simple Guide to LEAN. Are you ready?

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Owners – Make your Contractors Happy!

Building Information Management

The solution to delivery renovation, repair, and new construction project on-time, on-budget, and to the satisfaction of all participants is remarkably simple. Both should anticipate a reasonable profit, and a potential long term relationship involving other projects. Best value procurement versus lowest bidder.

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Real-Time Work-in-Progress Figures — Construction’s Secret Weapon

ProcurementExpress.com

But, procurement , project management, and the C-suite should all monitor WIP closely. They also serve as a way to check up on the financial health of your organization and ensure that you’re budgeting and forecasting accurately. When the payment hits their account, they may mistake it for profit.