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Job Order Contracting – Recommended Best Practices

Job Order Contracting

Require that any Scope of Work has sufficient detail to enable a contractor to create a detailed line item estimate. Poor performance at this stage is a primary cause for cost overruns, change orders, and lack of satisfaction. Regular and ongoing owner inspections of work in progress and upon completion.

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Is Your Accountant Helping Or Hurting Your Construction Company?

Contractor Bookkeeping

Change Order. Work-In-Progress. Mom would write him a check, which he inspected carefully, put it in his shirt pocket and with a tip of his hat he was on his way out the door and disappeared for another month. When my parents used words like: Job Deposit. Payment Application. Periodic Draw. Underground.