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What Is a Change Order?

Autodesk Construction Cloud

What Is a Construction Change Order? According to some estimates, an average of 35% of projects experience at least one major change throughout the life of the project. As a contractor, change orders can leave you feeling like you’re trapped between a rock and a hard place. Key Takeaways.

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LEAN Procurement via Collaborative Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

LEAN Procurement via Collaborative Job Order Contracting provides significantly improve outcomes for all participants and stakeholders. There are several core elements associated with LEAN Procurement via Collaborative Job Order Contracting for real property owners, construction contractors, and building users.

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Preparing Independent Government Estimates – IGEs , IGCEs

Job Order Contracting

The usefulness of an IGE to a contracting officer and other Government interest depends largely upon its supporting documentation. Unfortunately, most Government agencies use “historical information”, “parametric modeling”, or national average cost data and associated construction cost indexes and/or area cost factors.

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JOC Procedures

Job Order Contracting

JOC PROCEDURES FOR ORDERING WORK . Initiation of a Job Order. Contract Administrator notifies the Contractor of a Project, schedules a Joint Scope Meeting, and issues a Notice of Joint Scope Meeting. All Supplemental Job Orders follow the same workflow and procedures as the original work order.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Reduced project related cost growth per change order. Journal of Management in Engineering, 10(6), 26-29. Partnering in major contracts: Paradox and metaphor. Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 3(1), 17-27. ICE-Municipal Engineer, 160(1), 37-44. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Construction Cost Knowledge Management

Job Order Contracting

The ability to clearly define detailed line item tasks defining the desired scope of work is critical to mitigating errors and omissions, reducing the number of change orders, as well as achieving defensible cost visibility and transparency. The transfer of cost knowledge is essential at a granular, task level.

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Construction is NOT complex…. People are. Successful Construction Project Delivery Requirements

Job Order Contracting

Only improved early and ongoing collaboration and communication across all participants and stakeholders has proven to reduce errors and omissions, minimize the number of change orders, shorten overall project delivery times, improve quality, and reduce total project costs.