Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Development of acquisition/procurement approach. JOC procurement/award process. Work execution and contract administration. A review of any existing related contracts is also important in order to avoid any potential conflicts or work disruption. Development of acquisition/procurement approach. Monitoring.

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Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A Job Order Contract Execution Guide is a required element for any successful, best management practice JOC Program. JOB ORDER CONTRACT (JOC) EXECUTION GUIDE. The contract may consist of a collection of proposed institutional facilities type projects. The JOC will remain in effect for one year from date of contract award.

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

By Bruce Jervis It is understandable, and laudable, that public entities at all levels of government are experimenting with alternative methods of procuring construction services. Frequently, however, these methods clash with longstanding public procurement practices and procedures.

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Construction and Infrastructure Law

JUNE 11, 2018

A recent California case may force engineering, procurement and construction companies doing business with foreign suppliers to reconsider—and maybe rewrite—their contracts. EPC company procures materials, parts, and equipment from foreign companies, it typically requires the foreign company to resolve its dispute in U.S.

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Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 31, 2021

Traditional contracting methods typically involve the non-owner participants tendering a lump-sum price based on the owner’s proposed allocation of responsibilities and risks. Finally, the workflow of traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery is just plain wrong!

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Construction Law

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Editor’s comment Evolution can disrupt more than revolution The new Procurement Act comes into force next year. The programme, called CRUX, is based on expert diagnosis of claims and disputes. Claims Building a case by extrapolation – should failure be the default?

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) recently issued a decision regarding a contractor’s claim for increased performance costs due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The delivery order contained numerous fixed-price line items, some of which the contractor needed to procure from an outside vendor.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Managing the procurement process and properly tracking costs with international suppliers is critical to help mitigate risk. With the release of Multi-Currency in Autodesk Build and BIM 360 Cost Management, teams can now easily manage supplier contracts, change orders, payment applications, and expenses in different currencies. .

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Constructlaw

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The night before the foundation was to be poured, Silvi and Carney signed a contract that increased Silvi’s scope of work to provide concrete for not only the foundation, but for the entire project. Carney subsequently terminated its contract with Silvi and used a different supplier to supply the remainder of the concrete for the project.

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Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 10, 2021

While there has been a fair amount written about Lean principles, actual application in the form of an integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methodology has been limited to 5% or less actual work. Relationship contracting- optimising project outcomes. Contract or co-operation? 1440-7027).

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Construction Dive

APRIL 30, 2014

The mere appearance of favoritism or impropriety is offensive to the public procurement system. The private procurement of construction contracts is quite different. Private entities may contract as they choose. A formal process with a stipulated bid form and price breakdown avoids problems.

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Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 7, 2022

The public sector could easily save 30%-40% of its budgets in this area with the basic implementation of robust, integrate planning, procurement, and project delivery methods. Adopt and implement robust LEAN, integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes. Path to Improvement. Measure productivity.

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Construction Law

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Editor’s comment Procurement slammed in Edinburgh Tram inquiry report Editor Nick Barrett laments the ‘litany of failures’ identified in Lord Hardie’s report into the Edinburgh Tram fiasco. Lessons must obviously be learned for future procurements; but none of them are new.

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Constructlaw

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The New York Supreme Court (New York’s trial court) dispatched all of the owner’s claims on summary judgment. The designer, which had specified the wrong type of turbine, invoked New York’s three-year statute of limitations to defeat the owner’s professional negligence claim. Click here to view full opinion as PDF.

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Job Order Contracting

APRIL 30, 2022

Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and team. The benefits of strategic collaboration vs. traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery are well documented and partially listed below (Chan et al., Zero costs associated with disputes and claims. Fewer disputes and claims.

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Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Partnering via 4BT OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting enables quality repair, renovation, and minor new construction projects to be consistently delivered on-demand, on-time, and on-budget. . Beat that with any other construction procurement and delivery process… you can’t.

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Building Information Management

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Why the Job Order Contracting model could work in Canada. A proven contracting methodology from the United States may be a model for solving some of Canada’s current contracting demands. In this way, JOC is similar to the standing order contracting that we are familiar with, with a few important differences.

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Building Information Management

DECEMBER 23, 2015

There are multiple aspects involved in setting up a JOB ORDER CONTRACT. Remember, whether you decide, as a real property Owner, to set up and manage your own JOC program internally, or outsource you4 JOC to a thirty-party, it is critical to fully understand the JOB ORDER CONTRACT process, workflows, and metrics, as well as expected outcomes.

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Construction Law

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The next thing you might be contacting your lawyer about could be your potentially over-inflated sustainability claims. Virtue signalling by ‘greenwashing’ could end up being more expensive than taking the measures you have wrongly claimed to. Nick Barrett.

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Building Information Management

JULY 2, 2016

The potential for fraud, waste or abuse exists for Job Order Contracting as it does for any other construction delivery method. A review of audits performed on Job Order Contract is ample evidence of how lack of proper JOC Program set-up, internal controls, or lack of performance for owners or contractors has created non trivial issues.

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Constructlaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It is easier to be successful in your claim if it is well-documented. Not only did these projects proceed, but some public agencies took advantage of the lack of commuters and quiet streets to add work to existing contracts. We have seen contracts terminated or suspended, work deleted and future tenders put on hold.

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Building Information Management

AUGUST 11, 2015

As a result, more facilities and government agencies are turning to job order contracting (JOC) to support their construction, renovation and repair efforts. Without JOC, the owner must procure each project individually in the traditional design-bid-build procurement method. Budget control.

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Building Information Management

AUGUST 11, 2015

As a result, more facilities and government agencies are turning to job order contracting (JOC) to support their construction, renovation and repair efforts. Without JOC, the owner must procure each project individually in the traditional design-bid-build procurement method. Budget control.

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Construction Specifier

JUNE 19, 2020

A great example of the latter is when architects and engineers preparing construction documents are allowed to employ their own standard specifications for a project, but need to use the owner’s own, possibly unique documents for Division 00–Procurement and Contracting Requirements. Conflicting requirements.

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Construction Dive

JANUARY 9, 2013

It may affect the enforceability of the contract clause itself. Featured in this Week’s Construction Claims Advisor:Subcontract Clause Did Not Clearly Shift Risk of Owner NonpaymentSlow Inspection of Site Condition Did Not Delay Contractor’s CompletionBond’s Reference to Different Procurement Ruins Low Bid

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Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

These new project arrangements have proved challenging to the public procurement system. A recent challenge to a lease-leaseback arrangement in California was squarely addressed by the procurement statutes. The procurement was exempt from competitive bidding. The bidding laws in many states have been slow to keep pace.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Ultimately, DynCorp was not awarded a contract because its proposal received lower technical ratings than its competitors and its prices were the highest of all offerors. Court of Federal Claims rejected those arguments, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) affirmed that decision.

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Construction Dive

AUGUST 20, 2014

The public procurement laws, however, with their emphasis on open competition, generally prevent hometown favoritism. They then stipulate than any bidder on a public works contract must employ a certain number of recent graduates from that program. Some communities are trying a new tactic.

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Construction Law

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Some interesting insights on the state of the industry and its contractual relationships emerge from the RIBA Construction Contracts and Law report (see News), the first since 2018. Claims for extensions of time was the most common cause of disputes, reported by 50% of respondents.

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Building Information Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Flexible, scalable implementation and management support for owners standing up or improving Job Order Contracting programs. Lisa Cooley Associates was recently launched to help Owners implement Job Order Contracting and other solutions to the big problems that small projects can present. Procurement Assistance. RFP Development.

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Levelset

MARCH 24, 2022

However, the steps to claim one differ from the standard construction lien process. After the preconstruction lien has been filed, a copy of the claim should be sent to the property owner by certified mail within 30 days of filing. Once filed, the claim will only be valid for 180 days from the date the claim was filed.

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Best Practices Construction Law

AUGUST 17, 2016

Many delay, disruption, and loss of productivity claims are lost or substantially reduced in value because mistakes, errors and carelessness are reflected in the original schedule and plan of operations. Overlooking procurement of critical materials. Errors in technical logic. Incomplete schedules.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

AUGUST 15, 2018

When you are looking for a solution, you have the ability to choose from a wide variety of vendors who claim to offer the best solution for one particular component of your construction enterprise resource planning. Laborious procurement. Lesser procurement effort. The world is your oyster. No vendor lock-in.

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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. Spearin does not address tort liability to third parties injured by defective designs.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 16, 2015

There’s been a great little ‘article’ circling the web recently, claiming ‘How Building Information Modeling Saved One University $10 Million’. The architects talk ‘billable hours’ – were these hours already quoted for (and contracted to do) or left for change orders to claim later? Especially if ‘normal’ approaches were used.

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Best Practices Construction Law

MAY 20, 2016

When a client asks me about a particular contract provision and why it is “unfair” or “uneven”, we began a discussion about risk allocation. You see, the contract is used to shift the various risks on the project to the party most appropriate to handle it. What about the risk of escalation in material costs?

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Construction Law

JANUARY 31, 2020

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