Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Tracking Bid-Win Rates for Commercial Construction is important for any contractor. Actively tracking the bid win rate and understanding how to identify areas for improvement and strategizing need to be priority areas of focus. What is your Bid Win ratio? What is your Bid Win ratio? What is considered good?

Bidding 100

Bidding Construction Profitability Negotiation 100

Construction Business Owner

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

6 Steps to Fine-Tune Your Takeoffs & Bid More Accurately. How to navigate the cost fluctuations, errors, missing items and unforeseen circumstances that come with bidding on construction projects. Elizabeth Manning. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 11:31.

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Bidding Construction 367

Construction Business Owner

JULY 1, 2020

3 Keys to a Better Bidding Process. How teams can get more from their bidding technology. The construction industry is rapidly transforming. Digital Transformation in Bid Management: Technology. When choosing new bidding technology, teams must find a solution that improves productivity, collaboration and efficiency.

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Bidding Software Software Procurement 296

Construction Business Owner

DECEMBER 20, 2022

11 Ways to Submit the Best Quality Bid. An accurate bid for construction work takes time; it’s not something that can be thrown together in 15 minutes. Tue, 12/20/2022 - 09:48. It takes knowledge of the client, an understanding of the plan, and much skill to estimate labor, materials and equipment costs accurately.

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Bidding Estimating Profitability Equipment 295

Construction Business Owner

MARCH 10, 2021

How Paying Closer Attention to Contracts Can Mean More Successful Bids. Submitting a competitively priced bid is key for a bidder to be selected and awarded a contract to build an owner’s project. Complying with the bidding documents and providing all requested information are the other parts. Alex Headley.

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Bidding Contract Documentation 348

Construction Business Owner

MARCH 6, 2019

3 areas to filter for better bidding and estimating from construction business consultant George Hedley.

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Bidding Consulting Estimating Construction 280

Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 13, 2019

The leaders of top construction firms will always ask why they are or are not selected. Find out hoe to incorporate these best bidding practices at your company. . Objectivity and organizational improvement can mean all the difference between being the leader and the first loser.

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Bidding Construction 319

Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

How Will the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act Affect Bidding Strategies? Landis Construction. Kathy Wells. Mon, 02/28/2022 - 15:28. Christian Generes. President .

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Bidding Infrastructure Construction 296

Construction Business Owner

MARCH 7, 2019

How to properly license your construction business for bidding a new state. .

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Bidding Construction 267

Construction Business Owner

JULY 10, 2018

Do construction contractors that win 100 percent of their business through the low-bid process need marketing? After all, as a low-bid construction business owner, your fate lies strictly in the ability of a hard-nosed, creative estimator to bring in new work on bid day.

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Bidding Contractors Estimating Construction 247

Construction Business Owner

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Construction industry experts explain the bidding strategies that keep their firms profitable.

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Bidding Profitability Industrial Construction 251

Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Sustainable Building in New Jersey & Beyond ccapoccia Thu, 02/27/2025 - 12:35 When Brookfield Properties looked to build new distribution centers in New Jersey, they wanted to work with a construction firm with the same sustainability goals.

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New Jersey Sustainability Bidding Design 250

Construction Business Owner

APRIL 6, 2022

2022 Construction Cost Changes. Cost changes you need to know for key construction materials, labor & equipment. The construction industry has never seen anything like the past two years — and it’s showed in the cost of construction work. And the shelf life for bids and estimates has dropped from weeks to days.

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Construction Bidding Materials Budgeting 358

Viewpoint Construction Technology

MARCH 15, 2022

The Key Role Technology Will Play in Bidding—and Winning—Federally-Funded Construction Projects.

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Infrastructure Contract Bidding Construction 320

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 4, 2025

The Importance of Standardized Cost Information for Construction, Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Activities Savvy real proper owners are starting their transition to standardized cost information. The post Standardized Cost Information – Construction, Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance appeared first on 4BT.

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Renovating Construction Bidding Equipment 130

Construction Business Owner

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Whether youre just starting out or looking to streamline your approach, this session can be the roadmap to success.

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Bidding Regulation Contractors Education 293

Viewpoint Construction Technology

JULY 10, 2018

From the back office to the job site, technology is transforming construction, facilitating new levels of collaboration, efficiency and speed among project teams. Regulatory Requirements Before Bidding. Too often, contractors take the chance and submit a bid before the license is in hand, which can backfire in costly ways.

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Bidding Permits Contractors Certification 225

Construction Business Owner

OCTOBER 5, 2018

All the time, effort and energy invested in winning a good construction contract or building a loyal customer relationship, which allows you to negotiate on a project, is wasted with an inaccurate or incomplete estimate.

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Estimating Bidding Negotiation Contract 229

HardHatChat

AUGUST 28, 2018

Budget is always a major consideration for our commercial construction clients, and as a general contractor we devote significant time to the budgeting process. Competitively Bidding the Project. To be clear, we manage plenty of competitively bid projects that we keep well-within the client’s budget expectations.

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Budget Budgeting Commercial Plans 337

Construction Business Owner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Technology can help GCs avoid cumbersome administrative challenges and ensure they are covering potential risks throughout the bid process. For subcontractors, technology can help them automate how they become qualified and improve how they communicate with GCs. Get the scoop on these technologies here. . .

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Bidding Risk 226

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 7, 2025

Better contractor alignment Estimates match how local subcontractors and suppliers bid , reducing disputes. Real-time, granular, locally researched data is essential for Lean construction, JOC, and Progressive Design-Build to ensure cost transparency, prevent budget overruns, and enable informed decision-making.

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Management Estimating Change Orders Construction 147

HardHatChat

MARCH 4, 2019

One of the biggest challenges for commercial construction firms today is the tighter project timelines that have become the norm at every phase of a project – from shorter deadlines for submitting initial bids and budgets, to quicker resolution on addendums and change orders, to compressed schedules for construction and delivery.

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Project Management Commercial Management Construction 349

The Constructor

AUGUST 18, 2022

A backlog in construction is categorized as prioritized work that needs to be completed or that has not started yet. The future projects a company has won bids for also come under the backlog category. Construction backlog is an indicator of a company’s financial health. The post How to Manage Construction Backlogs?

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Management Construction Bidding Engineering 264

Construction Business Owner

JANUARY 29, 2021

4 Tips for Navigating Green Construction Contracts. Elizabeth Manning. Fri, 01/29/2021 - 10:20.

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Green Contract Certification Bidding 296

Contractor Bookkeeping

MARCH 21, 2025

In the bidding process, contractors prepare detailed proposals that outline their approach, costs, and timelines for a project. Competitive bidding requires a balance between offering a competitive price and ensuring the proposal reflects the quality and reliability of the work. Negotiation plays a key role after bids are submitted.

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Estimating Bidding Negotiation Budgeting 92

Construction Business Owner

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The design-bid-build project delivery method has dominated the construction landscape for many years. . Preparing for Future Tragedies Decades Before They Happen. Thu, 10/27/2022 - 15:27.

Bidding 348

Bidding Design Construction 348

Viewpoint Construction Technology

AUGUST 18, 2021

Construction contractors who want to bid on government contracts need to use NIST 800-171 and other cybersecurity frameworks requirements.

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Bidding Contract Contractors Construction 169

Construction Business Owner

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A Case for Bringing Private Bidding Processes to Public Projects. Elizabeth Manning. Thu, 09/10/2020 - 09:25. Looking to enter the public sector in the near future? The answer to establishing your firm as a competitive bidder on infrastructure and other public projects may be tech. Here's why.

Bidding 194

Bidding Infrastructure 194

Construction Business Owner

JUNE 4, 2020

As the recession due in large part to the coronavirus pandemic starts to bite, construction companies can take one of two courses of action. They could hunker down, focus on forgivable Payroll Protection Program loans and other government aid and ramp up their bids in hopes of winning some business from increasingly competitive projects.

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Bidding Construction 343

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 18, 2022

Improving Construction Project Delivery Outcomes. Improving construction project outcomes is critical from both economic and environmental perspectives. Efficient repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction of buildings, transportation systems, utilities, and bridges can become a reality with appropriate leadership focus.

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Procurement Construction Schedule CSI 264

HardHatChat

DECEMBER 19, 2018

A strong pipeline of senior living construction was a “high” of 2018. So before we officially ring in 2019, here is our rundown of Englewood Construction’s commercial construction trends “highs” and “lows” from 2018: High: A Sizable Senior Living Pipeline. An overall rise in construction material costs.

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Commercial Retail Industrial Construction 328

Job Order Contracting

MAY 14, 2020

Using the right pre-construction tools and services is important to early and ongoing information sharing and obtaining mutually beneficial best value outcomes. LEAN Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery. The post Best Value Pre-Construction Tools and Services… and more appeared first on 4BT.

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Life Cycle Procurement Construction Renovating 264

HardHatChat

JULY 27, 2020

Earlier this spring, I had the opportunity to talk with Restaurant Development + Design Magazine for an article on “How to Find the Perfect Construction Partner” that just published in the July/August issue. Plus, once a client finds a great construction partner, the best way to hold onto them is by being a good customer themselves.

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Commercial Contractors Construction Bidding 240

Construction Business Owner

JANUARY 31, 2019

Last week, Autodesk announced the official closing of its acquisition of BuildingConnected, an online bid management solution designed to serve general contractors and subcontractors. The tech solution facilitates a more streamlined bidding process and gives users access to a network of industry contacts.

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Engineering Autodesk AutoCAD Bidding 323

Construction Business Owner

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The construction industry continues to invest heavily in safety management. Safety performance affects your ability to bid and win work and to negotiate contracts. As such, safety is a key driver of a construction company’s productivity, quality and profitability.

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Safety Negotiation Bidding Profitability 320