Public Sector Construction Procurement is BROKEN.
Why?
Each and every day the procurement of facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction services occurs without any current, objective, verifiable cost information. This activity is in direct violation of the fiducicary responsibility of public sector organizations.
How?
Most public sector organizations do not use local market, verifiable, and granluar cost data to establish a construction cost estimate. Instead, reliance upon contractor quote, historical costs, and/or national average cost data and locationg factoring is the norm.
Solution?
#1 First, public sector organzations must itegrated Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery Teams and leverage robust, proven frameworks that focus upon best value outcomes.
#2 Current, granular local market cost data organized using expanded CSI MasterFormat.
#3 Widespread adoption of collaborative construction delivery methods.
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