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Should Contractor-Financed Projects Be Competitively Bid?

Construction Dive

By Bruce Jervis Pressing needs for infrastructure and other public facilities, combined with limited funding sources, are changing the way public projects are financed. These new project arrangements have proved challenging to the public procurement system. The procurement was exempt from competitive bidding.

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Review clears Teesworks of corruption allegations

Construction Law

The delayed independent review into claims surrounding finances at the Teesworks development has found no evidence of corruption or illegality. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Virtue signallers beware

Construction Law

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. Those projects failing to meet these criteria may struggle to access financing.

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Why a Single-Vendor Technology Strategy Will Work Best for Your Construction Company

Viewpoint Construction Technology

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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Job Order Contracting Operations Manual

Job Order Contracting

orders and actions required by the Procurement Authority, are planned and discussed to. Procurement Authority with input from the FM team., The procurement authority and. The procurement authority are typcially the only people who have the responsibility and authority to place JOC task orders. procurement authority. •

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Challenging Times = Emerging Sales Opportunities

Pro Builder

If you’re not familiar with these terms, they refer to outside agent sales that aren’t properly registered and are determined to be the “procuring cause”—defined as the continued and uninterrupted series of actions of an agent that ultimately result in the sale of a property—of a home sale. Outsourcing Your Sales. Are Co-op Sales Worth It?

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No easy rides for late payment reform

Construction Law

The government is effectively claiming that it only wants to do business with companies that promptly pay their suppliers, many of which are small businesses that can be destroyed because of the impact of late payment on cash flow. They would also have to show that they have a plan to achieve the required standard. But perhaps for longer?