Construction Equipment

JUNE 14, 2017

Army recently awarded Navistar Defense, LLC, a foreign military sales contract valued at $18.8 Navistar Defense MTVs are based on the International WorkStar severe-duty platform designed for both off and on-road operation, and is the backbone for the company's MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle.

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Cassell Construction Estimating

MARCH 29, 2024

Please visit our web link for more information: P6 Fundamentals P6 for DoD & US Government Contracts Course Summary (Monday, 5/13 and Tuesday, 5/14): De-mystify the challenges of getting your schedules approved on NAVFAC & USACE contracts, so you can get paid faster! This course can be completed onsite or online.

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Construction Equipment

MARCH 1, 2021

Mack Defense announced today that the U.S. Army ordered 99 Mack Defense M917A3 non-armored Heavy Dump Trucks (HDT) as part of the previously announced firm-fixed-price $296.4 million contract between the U.S. Department of Defense and Mack Defense. This order signifies the successful testing of…

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Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

JOC Contract strategy, development, implementation, and management involves a thorough understanding of LEAN Construction and Life-cycle Asset Management. Work execution and contract administration. Request a JOC Contract Operations Guide. JOC Contract – Additional Information. Job Order Contracting Resources.

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Job Order Contracting

JUNE 21, 2023

Our platform can manage multiple Programs, Contracts, Proposals, Estimates, Work Orders, Documents, Forms, Contractors/Subconstractors, Teams, Buildings, Graphics, Issues/Tasks, and even leverage BIM information.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 13, 2017

In an effort to mitigate risk you should not contract directly with an environmental consultant, but rather your attorney should contract with that consultant. This topic includes ordering a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment in contemplation of a real estate transaction, but it includes so much more, think defensively.

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Best Practices Construction Law

JUNE 21, 2022

Last month, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals held that a public contractor could not recover $100k in construction costs incurred following the government’s decision to close down a base in Tennessee due to COVID-19. APTIM Federal Services, LLC (ASBCA No.

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Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 21, 2018

LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting has a number of distinct advantages for repetitive repair, renovation, minor new construction and maintenance projects. The Additional Benefits of LEAN OpenJOC Job Order Contracting. Not all implementations of Job Order Contracting are the same. The Origins of IDIQ and JOC.

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NH Construction Law

OCTOBER 22, 2023

It happens this way: A contractor or subcontractor borrows money from a lender, and as security for the loan it gives the lender an assignment of or lien on its receivables and contract rights. Otherwise all construction contracts would have such a clause, thwarting the lender’s statutory rights.

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Job Order Contracting

JUNE 21, 2023

Note: National average cost data, location factoring, or economic factoring do not provide defensible representations of project costs.) Best Value Job Order Contracting and Total Cost of Ownership Management Learn more… www.4bt.us . #8 Failure to use CURRENT local market unit price cost data.

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Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The History of Job Order Contracting. Lowered the contract administration costs. 1999, Journal of Construction Education, Development of the Job Order Contracting (JOC) Process for the 21st Century, Dean T. 2006, IDIQ Contracts, Denise Farris | March 30, 2006 | Construction). BEST VALUE CONSTRUCTION. Early 1980’s – U.S.

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Construction Dive

MARCH 20, 2023

About 80% of work from this contract will be performed in Guam, per the Department of Defense, with the remainder in other areas of the Pacific and Indian oceans.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 6, 2022

Defense Dept. officials have said they will spend about $11 billion on military construction projects over five years.

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Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 28, 2017

Job Order Contracting Life-cycle Facilities Value Management and improving AECOO outcomes for all participants and stakeholders. Job Order Contracting Life-cycle Facilities Value Management enables the efficient use of available funds targeted for executing renovation, repair, maintenance, and minor new construction projects.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 29, 2017

Best Practice Job Order Contracting. The DOD has long been recognized as the leader in best practice job order contracting. Thus while County, State, and Local Governments in general have a ways to go in deploying Best Practice Job Order Contracting, the potential benefit are certainly worth the effort. Note that for.

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Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The History of Job Order Contracting. The United States Department of the Army is attributed with initially developing and deploying Job Order Contracting during the early 1980s. An initial process framework was put in place that would subsequently be improved to become what we now know as Job Order Contracting, JOC.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 6, 2022

Defense Dept. officials have said they will spend about $11 billion on military construction projects on Guam over five years.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 8, 2022

A US Defense Dept. guidance memo gives instructions on how contract cost adjustment clauses should be written in the future.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Department of Defense (DoD) published the much anticipated proposed rule for the revamped Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 For example, contractors subject to 252.204–7012 are already required to safeguard covered defense information in accordance with NIST SP 800-171. On December 26, 2023, the U.S.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) contract, learned the hard way that a contractor simply cannot ignore a size protest, regardless of its actual merit. The contracting officer forwarded the protest to the cognizant SBA Area Office (Area Office). Sanford Federal, Inc., the selected awardee for a U.S.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 29, 2022

Defense Dept. awarded a $120-million contract to a domestic unit of Australia-based Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. to build America's first heavy rare earth processing plant.

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ENR Construction

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Months-long DOD review of 'executive privilege' stops audit of $400M Fisher Sand & Gravel construction award, watchdog tells Congress; Corps won't release executive branch emails

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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. As a result, the contractor submitted several requests for contract adjustments based on the increased price quotes of the vendor.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

The government acts in its sovereign capacity when it takes actions that are general and public in nature and do not target any particular contractor; rather the impact of the government’s action on its contracts is merely incidental to the purpose of a broader governmental objective. As the Court of Claims in Jones v.

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Best Practices Construction Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And sometimes, it is a combination of both A case cannot go much worse when a court’s opinion starts with the following: “This case concerns a contract in which a number of disputes, poor practices, and conflicting personalities created a climate of dishonesty, distrust, and lack of effective communication.

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Best Practices Construction Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In a payment dispute between the subcontractor and contractor, the contractor argued that the “pay if paid” clause provided an absolute defense to payment. The subcontractor argued that the prime contract between the owner and the contractor defined the cost of work to include “payments made” to subcontractors. However, in Thomas J.

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ENR Construction

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Months-long DOD review of 'executive privilege' stops audit of $400M Fisher Sand & Gravel construction award, watchdog tells Congress; Corps won't release executive branch emails

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ENR Construction

APRIL 24, 2019

About $1 billion in federal contracts have recently been awarded to modify sections of barriers on the U.S. of Defense is seeking to follow up with more contracts in coming months. border with Mexico, and the Dept.

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Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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. Embrace available tools and methods.

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ENR Construction

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Months-long DOD legal review of 'executive privilege' blocks audit of $400M Fisher Sand & Gravel construction award, IG tells Congress.

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Defense Legal Contract Housing 36

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

As you can imagine, the Government contracts with a lot more than that for SaaS solutions ( [link] ). Note: Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High is a cloud platform developed by Microsoft for cleared personnel and organizations that support the Department of Defense (DoD).]

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ENR Construction

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Months-long DOD review of 'executive privilege' stops audit of $400M Fisher Sand & Gravel construction award, IG tells Congress.

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Defense Contract Housing Construction 36

ENR Construction

JANUARY 15, 2013

Language in Defense Authorization Bill of 2013, signed into law on Jan. 2, expands size of contracts eligible for SBA Surety Bond Guarantee Program.

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Construction Equipment

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Navistar and its defense unit are accused of “bilking” nearly $1.3 The report says the accusations are in connection with a contract for military vehicles used by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. billion from the U.S. government, according to a report in Crane’s Chicago Business.

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Construction Equipment

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Navistar and its defense unit are accused of “bilking” nearly $1.3 The report says the accusations are in connection with a contract for military vehicles used by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. billion from the U.S. government, according to a report in Crane’s Chicago Business.

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Construction Dive

JUNE 18, 2018

Department of Defense unveiled that the Kiewit Corp.-Hensel Hensel Phelps joint venture project at the Offutt Air Force Base has been subject to more than two years of delays and at least $53 million of cost overruns.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

APRIL 21, 2022

Unfortunately, the construction industry could not employ the remote workplace, and projects continued to require hands-on personnel who could not socially distance as a practical matter and were at greater risk for contracting COVID. A number of contract clauses may be helpful in managing COVID-19 issues as they arise.

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