PREPARING CONTRACT (TENDER) DOCUMENTS
The Constructor
AUGUST 25, 2012
The contract documents A contract is an agreement between two parties which they intend to be legally binding with respect to the obligations of each.
Best Value JOB ORDER CONTRACTING
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 22, 2023
Characteristics of Best Value JOB ORDER CONTRACTING… Real proper owner capability, leadership, commitment, and accountability Integrated internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams within a standardized programmatic process Clear set of objectives and workflows for the all aspects of the programmatic process – (..)
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Good Faith and Fair Dealing: The Essence of Construction Agreements
Constructonomics
DECEMBER 28, 2014
Everybody loves to get hung up in contract language. On construction projects, contractors, owners, and subs will fire contract language back and forth like missiles in what gets to be an arms race of legalities that negatively affects projects by creating panic and anxiety. Absolutely not.
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Rethinking Job Order Contracts
Job Order Contracting
APRIL 16, 2021
If you are a public sector owner looking to put an end to underperforming facilities projects and excessive administration costs, rethinking job order contracts might be a good idea. Rethinking Job Order Contracts to drive best value facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build outcomes. Rethinking Job Order Contracts.
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Huh? Ugh! LOL: The Top Ten-tions of Construction Law and Contracts
Speaker: Matthew DeVries, Construction Law Attorney and National Blogger
The rights and responsibilities of parties involved in a construction project are mainly dependent upon the contract or agreement between them, and there is no better time than to review your contractual obligations to identify risk pitfalls, resolve tensions, and ensure success.
Bipartisan bill seeks deadlines for union contract agreements
Construction Dive
MARCH 11, 2025
The Faster Labor Contracts Act would put a clock on negotiations for a labor deal once workers vote to form a union.
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Job Order Contract Cooperatives – WHEN and HOW to Use Them
Job Order Contracting
JULY 8, 2024
Job Order Contract Cooperatives serve a purpose, however, it’s important to know WHEN and HOW they should be used. Contracts are available to public schools, charter schools, private schools, community colleges, universities, cities, counties, other governmental agencies, and non-profits.
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Best Value Construction Delivery Methods – Alliance Contracting, LEAN Construction, Integrated Project Delivery
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 18, 2020
These including alliance contracting/project alliancing, LEAN construction, integrated project delivery, LEAN job order contracting. While all are “relational contracting and/or relational project delivery methods” they can vary in terms of level of development, available tools, and actual work scope.
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Army Job Order Contracts FAIL to meet AFARS requirements MOST OF THE TIME
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Army Job Order Contracts fail to meet critical AFARS requirements most of the time. The J OCPB (JOC Price Book: reflects the current local costs in detail for construction tasks expected to be performed in the geographical area of the base contract with the primary use of developing a detailed line-item price.
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5 Legal Documents All Construction Business Owners Should Use
Construction Business Owner
APRIL 26, 2018
Have you ever spent hours drafting a contract, only to discover that there is already a standard contract that would have worked well, or at least given you a good starting point? The following five standard legal agreements are worth considering to help clean up your contract processes.
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Proven Job Order Contracting Practices that Drive Improved Construction Outcomes
Job Order Contracting
JULY 31, 2020
Proven Job Order Contracting Practices have evolved to enable the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction project on-time and on-budget. multi-party agreement, complete with an Operations Manuals / Execution Guide. multi-party agreement, complete with an Operations Manuals / Execution Guide.
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Job Order Contracting Doesn’t Have to be Complex or Expensive
Job Order Contracting
APRIL 6, 2021
Job Order Contracting doesn’t have to be complex or expensive. Collaborative, Open, and Best Value Job Order Contracting. Below are examples of best practices to be considered when structuring and executing a JOB ORDER CONTRACTING PROGRAM. Your JOC Program shouldn’t be complex or expensive.
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Beyond Driver Exoneration: How Dash Cams Reduce Exposure to Nuclear Verdicts
Construction Business Owner
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
A well-designed CAT program will also align with state labor laws, contracts, and any union agreements. Timely detection and correction of unsafe behavior through video-based coaching: Helps prevent crashes and violations, Reduces potential liability, and Improves employee retention. 4) Share safety improvements.
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The Value Of Service Agreements In Your Construction Company
Contractor Bookkeeping
AUGUST 21, 2020
Service agreement holders are more likely to be clients who add more value to your construction company because they represent your customer base's most loyal segment. Every service agreement customer represents future work. Non-service agreement customers are more likely to be customers and fickle.
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Test the Bounds of Job Order Contracting?
Job Order Contracting
JULY 28, 2021
California Contractor Tests the Bounds of Job Order Contracting. There’s one project delivery method you may not be as familiar with though: Job Order Contracting, also known by its acronym JOC. JOC contracts are administered by public entities issuing a request for proposals. Think periodic maintenance of facilities.
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LEAN Construction Facts
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 23, 2022
The following are NOT LEAN construction solutions, but span a variety of philosophies and/or individual components tools: LastPlanner System, Kaizen, Kanban, Value Stream Mapping (VPM), Construction Process Analysis (CPA), Five Whys, Pareto Analysis, 5S, BIM, Poka Yoke, Six Sigma… Current LEAN construction methods include Integrated Project (..)
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Job Order Contracting – California Community College Districts
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
PROCUREMENT AND FINANCE – Job Order Contracting – California Community College Districts. Community College Districts Now Authorized to Use Job Order Contracting, AB 618 (Low D). This new law authorizes community colleges to use job order contracting under terms parallel to existing law.
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Types of Construction Contracts and Their Comparison
The Constructor
NOVEMBER 24, 2016
There are different types of construction contracts and their comparison is presented in this article. A construction contract is an agreement.
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2021 Facilities Repair Renovation and New Construction Cost Management
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 22, 2021
Integrating in-house and contracted resources to achieve optimal outcomes requires a full understanding of expected deliverables and associated strategies and workflows, in addition to a fully skilled and dedicated team. These environments, when properly deployed and managed, drive unparalleled levels of efficiency quality.
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Job Order Contracting – Review of Best Management Practices 2019
Job Order Contracting
JULY 21, 2019
Job Order Contracting: Everything Owners and Builders Need to Know. Job order contracting is neither difficult to understand, nor costly to practice, yet is virtually assures the consistent delivery of quality, on-time, on-budget repair, renovation, and new construction projects…if designed, deployed, and managed correctly.
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138 Arbitration including Religious Arbitration in Green Building Contracts
Green Building Law Update
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
clauses buried in tens of millions of contracts have deprived Americans of one of their most fundamental constitutional rights: their day in court.”. There is little question that a properly drafted provision in a contract requiring arbitration is enforceable. Certification Agreement has a mandatory arbitration provision.
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A Real Property Owner’s Guide to Improving Construction Productivity
Job Order Contracting
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
The guideline comes in the form of an Operations Manual/Execution Guide as a component of a long-term multiparty agreement between owners and design-builders. The only proven processes to date are integrated project delivery (IPD) and LEAN job order contracting (JOC).
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Integrated LEAN Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery for Owners and Design-Builders
Job Order Contracting
MAY 18, 2022
The above provides a foundation to allow a real property owner and their design-builders to efficiently manage their ongoing repair, renovation, sustainability, maintenance, and new build projects.
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Properly Identifying Additional Insured
Construction Business Owner
JUNE 21, 2016
There are numerous ways that contract parties can shift the risk of certain types of losses between each other. Such agreements often appear in circumstances in which one party's services or activities may expose another party to a liability.
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New P3 contract form promises to better allocate risk
Construction Dive
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
ConsensusDocs said it developed a new standardized public-private partnership agreement in part to lower transactional costs for small and medium-sized projects.
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Buying a LEED Certified Building Is Easy But.
Green Building Law Update
NOVEMBER 4, 2018
That being the case, then why has the GBCI Change Of Owner Agreement been uploaded into LEED Online only 700 times since February 2015? So, GBCI even provides a form, making affecting the change in their system easy, but the Change of Owner Agreement form is little used. according to Susan Dorn, the General Counsel of USGBC and GBCI.
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8 Main Types of Construction Contracts
Autodesk Construction Cloud
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
A contract’s a contract, right? There are many construction contract types out there. The construction industry uses different kinds of agreements depending on the project’s scope, delivery, schedule, budget, and the parties involved. The eight types of construction contracts include: cost-plus construction contract.
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Job Order Contracting Review Best Management Practices 2019
Job Order Contracting
JULY 21, 2019
Job Order Contracting: Everything Owners and Builders Need to Know. Of course, the question remains… why don’t more real property owners and facilities management teams leverage the benefits of job order contracting? What Is Job Order Contracting? as well as total cost-of-ownership asset management. When Is JOC Used?
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Veterans Affairs Dept. Issues Strongest Ban Yet of Biden-Era Project Labor Agreement Mandate
ENR Construction
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
21 court ruling against the Biden-era agreement in a directive to remove it from construction contracts. Veterans' agency, which builds health care and other facilities across the US, cited a Jan.
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Job Order Contracting Basic Definitions
Job Order Contracting
DECEMBER 20, 2017
Job Order Contracting BASIC DEFINITIONS. The one-year period, beginning with the date of Job Order Contract award, during which the Owner may issue and/or implement Job Orders to the Contractor. CONTRACT / JOB ORDER CONTRACT. The written Agreement between Owner and the Awarded JOC Contractor(s). DEFECTIVE WORK.
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Additional DPW Job Order Contracting Courses
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 5, 2017
Additional DPW Job Order Contracting Courses. The below additional DPW Job Order Contracting Courses have limited availability. DPW JOB ORDER CONTRACTING ADVANCED. The students will understand the overall process of contract changes, modifications, and claims processes in accordance with the FAR and AFARS. Tuition: $1246.
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Understanding Termination for Convenience
Construction Business Owner
APRIL 13, 2023
Understanding Termination for Convenience ccapoccia Thu, 04/13/2023 - 15:16 Parties enter into contracts to memorialize the terms of an agreement reached with other parties. Each contract should outline the responsibilities and duties of each party in order to hold each contracting party to the agreed-upon terms.
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156 Job Order Contracting Program Manager
Job Order Contracting
MAY 31, 2017
Roles and responsibilities of a job order contracting program manager are both diverse and key to overall success. Job Order Contracting Program Manager. Let’s take a look at the roles and responsibilities of a job order contracting program manager. The post Job Order Contracting Program Manager appeared first on 4BT.
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Best Practice Job Order Contracting
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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IDIQ Construction Contract Guide
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 5, 2019
Definition: IDIQ construction contracts are Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity construction agreements that may or may not have associated detailed construction delivery processes and workflows. . MATOC (Multiple Award Task Order Contract) or MACC (Multiple Award Construction Contract) – for larger construction projects.
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Selling a House with Solar Panels is Not for the Faint of Heart
Green Building Law Update
MAY 21, 2017
But contract forms for the sale and purchase of a house are often provided by a local board of realtors and today those forms do not adequately address the new and only now evolving issues arising from a sale with rooftop solar panels. You understand and agree that this is a lease and not a sale agreement.
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232 DPW Job Order Contracting Basic Course – US Army Corps of Engineers
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 5, 2017
DPW JOB ORDER CONTRACTING BASIC Course. Purpose: DPW JOB ORDER CONTRACTING BASIC. Prerequisites: The nominees for the ob Order Contracting Basic course may include any DPW and contracting office personnel. Notes: Additional Job Order Contracting Educational Resources. Job Order Contract White Papers.
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100 LEAN Job Order Contracting
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 22, 2018
OpentJOC(TM) LEAN Job Order Contracting for Efficient Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction. Service Level Agreement. The post LEAN Job Order Contracting appeared first on 4BT. Manage estimates, budgets and forecasts. Components. Service level. 4BT-CE Introduction. 4BT-CE Welcome. 4BT-CE Estimating.
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What is a ‘Lump Sum Contract’: Understanding Fixed-Price Agreements
Building Radar
AUGUST 28, 2024
A “lump sum contract”, also known as a fixed-price contract, is one of the most common types of agreements in the construction industry. This type of contract stipulates a single price for all work done on a project, regardless of the actual time and materials used. What is a Lump Sum Contract?
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Virginia Joins 11 Other States Prohibiting Pay-If-Paid Clauses in Construction Contracts
Best Practices Construction Law
JUNE 15, 2022
Let’s cut to the chase—Virginia has joined 11 other states that have expressly prohibited “pay if paid” clauses in construction contracts. Many require more than just “pay-if-paid” language in the parties’ contract. If you have construction projects in Virginia, then read on. What’s the difference? What does the Virginia law say?
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Selling a House with Solar Panels is Fraught with Peril
Green Building Law Update
AUGUST 16, 2020
Today, the contracts for the sale and purchase of a house are often provided through a multiple listing service usually by a local board of realtors and most of the forms in common use do not adequately address the admittedly new and only now evolving issues arising from a sale with rooftop solar panels.
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IPD LEAN Construction JOB ORDER CONTRACTING
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 2, 2017
IPD LEAN Construction JOB ORDER CONTRACTING – all are interrelated and all can lead to measurably improved outcomes for all participants. JOC – Job Order Contracting – IPD specifically for renovation, repair, and minor new construction projects. IPD LEAN Construction JOB ORDER CONTRACTING – PRACTICES.
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JOC TASK ORDER Process Overview – USACE
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
A Job Order Contract involved Projects and/or Task Orders. Entities/people involved in a JOC Program at a Project or Task Order levels include: client/building user, project managers, awarded JOC contractor, contracting officer/contracting officer representative, others as required.
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Job Order Contracting Operations Manual
Job Order Contracting
OCTOBER 18, 2016
JOB ORDER CONTRACTING (JOC) Operations Manual. The work management office also completes a desk estimate of the project cost to help determine the best method for executing the work request (in-house shops, competitively bid individual contracts or JOC). Contract Administration Functions. Contract Inspection Functions.
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