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The Importance of Prevailing Wage Rates to Owners, Builders, and AE’s

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In fact, your construction use requires the use of prevailing wage or Davis-Bacon labor rates, it is likely best to procure them from a professional source. Using a Unit Price Book enables the development of full transparent, easily communicated, and detailed repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction project costs.

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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

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Planning, procurement, and project delivery is inefficient and disparate. Construction method required by the procurement law in certain states. Allows for construction price “negotiation” based on an established construction cost unit-price book. Disadvantages. Advantages. Can reduce markups of general contractors.

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Job Order Contracting Operations Manual

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facilities inspection programs generate requirements for sustainment, restoration, modernization work and minor new construction. 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. Once satisfied.

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Job Order Contracting – Recommended Best Practices

Job Order Contracting

All the tools , training , information, processes, and support are available to ANY procurement and facilities management team that wants to consistently deliver renovation, repair, and minor new construction project on-time, on-budget, and to everyone’s satisfaction. We hope you benefit from the following information.

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An Introduction to Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

JOC reduces unnecessary levels of engineering, design, and contract procurement time along with construction project procurement costs by awarding long- term contracts for a wide variety of renovation, repair and new construction projects. Smaller projects were taking up to 1 year to procure creating a growing backlog of work.

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School Board Business Officers Better Serve Facilities Requirements with Innovative Tool Kit

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It is the responsibility of every public sector procurement and facilities management professional to optimally allocate limited repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction funds. Innovative, Proven, Best Value Construction Services Procurement & Project Delivery. Instant access to data.

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Army Job Order Contracts FAIL to meet AFARS requirements MOST OF THE TIME

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But that’s not all, the DoD doesn’t leverage current system thinking and robust, integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery workflows to maximize utilization of resource. The contracting officer shall negotiate the modification and make a determination that the price is fair and reasonable. (d) c) Limitations.

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