Balfour Beatty adds new CIO, procurement officer
Construction Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
The London-based builder brings in the new C-suite members amid burgeoning interest in artificial intelligence at the firm and across the industry.
New Act no cure for procurement malaise
Construction Law
MARCH 3, 2025
New legislation aiming to modernise the UKs public procurement system doesnt come along very often. The Procurement Act 2023 has been some time coming, after being subjected to delays since being announced by the previous government, which said it would be one of the biggest changes in UK procurement history.
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Nonresidential Construction Market Update 2022 – Impact of higher financing and project delivery costs
Job Order Contracting
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Other sectors down include – Commercial, Healthcare, Education, Office, Manufacturing, and Power. Now, more than ever, robust, efficient LEAN planning, procurement, and project delivery methods need to be deployed. Largest declines in Highway/street, Water supply and Public Safety.
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Building in Cloud – Collaborative Construction and FM Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery
Job Order Contracting
MAY 26, 2020
Asset Information Model Building in Cloud lets you keep track of multiple asset classes: office equipment, furniture, laboratory equipment, facilities, etc. Learn more… The post Building in Cloud – Collaborative Construction and FM Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery appeared first on 4BT.
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Define Construction Procurement
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 7, 2017
Define Construction Procurement. Define Construction Procurement… It’s easy to define construction procurement right? Improper construction procurement methods and a relative lack of competency on the part of procurement staff have greatly contributed to poor construction outcomes. Perhaps not.
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Federal Government Procurement Fraud
Job Order Contracting
DECEMBER 8, 2018
Federal Government procurement fraud remains at best a severe risk, and at worst, rampant. Agency Affected : Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget. Agency Affected : Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget. GAO-19-34: Published: Dec 4, 2018. Recommendation 1).
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Construction Operations: Field and Office Silos
Carol Hagen
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
This is particularly noticeable between preconstruction to operations and finance, and from field to office. So the way to break down the business silos would seem straightforward – combine the technologies and link the processes that are used in the office and field silos.” Construction Silo Solution. Mobility and Partnerships.
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3 Keys to a Better Bidding Process
Construction Business Owner
JULY 1, 2020
Navigating the Procurement Process. Many companies don’t have a clear process for purchasing new software, with 57% of survey respondents reporting that they either don’t have a defined procurement process or aren’t sure what it is. . Section In the Office. Check it out today. Managing Risk in the Digital Age, [link].
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4 ways supplier diversity helps you win in construction
Construction Dive
JULY 17, 2024
Engaging with underrepresented subs and disributors can give you a business edge and strengthen the depth of your procurement channels, according to a small business liaison officer.
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Army Job Order Contracts FAIL to meet AFARS requirements MOST OF THE TIME
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
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. However, contracting officers may exceed the 10 percent if justified and approved in accordance with FAR 6.302. 5117.9004-2 Solicitation. (a)
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UK Construction Employment Decline Worst Since 2010
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 11, 2020
83,000 lost jobs in 2nd quarter 2020 (Office of National Statistics). Proven LEAN construction planning, procurement and project delivery processes, actionable data, enabling cloud technology and ongoing training, are the proven path to significant gains in efficiency and satisfaction.
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Traditional Facilities Construction Cost Management Failure – Repair, Reno, Maintenance, and New Builds
Job Order Contracting
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
I can manage collaborative workflows and centralize communication across our office, field, clients, contractors and/or vendors to reduce project/payment delays. Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery internal and external teams, working with a collaborative framework with defined workflows and centralized communication.
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JOC TASK ORDER Process Overview – USACE
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
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. Only the contracting officer can negotiate/approve non pre-priced item(s) in the task order.
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School Board Business Officers Better Serve Facilities Requirements with Innovative Tool Kit
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
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. FOUR BT, LLC WWW.4BT.US
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Backpedalling on procurement reform
Construction Law
APRIL 1, 2022
Some encouraging activity has been seen on the public procurement front recently, all well reported on in Construction Law. The appointment of Jacob Rees-Mogg as the Secretary of State for Government Efficiency can’t have raised many hopes for the radical reform needed to create the modern, efficient procurement system that the UK lacks.
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The Unique Challenges of Procurement Planning for Construction Companies
ProcurementExpress.com
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Construction teams face unique procurement challenges due to the complex nature of the business. As technology changes the game, procurement is becoming a strategic juggling act. With that in mind, we’ll look at three of the biggest challenges that construction teams deal with and how they affect procurement planning.
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63 Living in a Materials World
Viewpoint Construction Technology
MAY 7, 2019
But along the way, those material costs can start to add up, especially if the materials aren’t procured and managed properly. The cost of materials can rise and fall daily, whether during the bid progression, the procurement process or the building phase. Maximizing Materials Management.
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Procurement opportunity must be grasped
Construction Law
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Procurement related guidance and advice has been coming thick and fast in recent weeks. Contributions were also made by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Procurement Advisory Group. The industry now knows what needs to be done and has been told how to do it. Nick Barrett. The Guidance can be seen at: [link].
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Report highlights need for procurement overview
Construction Law
AUGUST 3, 2021
But the National Audit Office has had a good stab at it in its latest report on good practice for public sector contracting authorities. ( [link] ). Advisers were appointed and details gathered about department’s contracts with Carillion. Nick Barrett.
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Combatting climate change could also boost procurement skills
Construction Law
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
For example, since 30 September new rules announced by the Cabinet Office in July stipulate that all firms bidding for government contracts worth more than £5 million a year must commit to achieving net zero by 2050. Firms which fail to do so will be excluded from bidding for the contract,” the Cabinet Office promises. Nick Barrett.
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Early estimates only part of the procurement problem
Construction Law
DECEMBER 1, 2020
The UK’s poor procurement practices are highlighted yet again by the news that the £19bn Crossrail project can’t be completed with the money available to the project. Another chapter in the long history of analysing why the UK’s procurement practices are so poor has just been produced by the National Audit Office (see News).
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Public procurement isn’t working
Construction Law
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
While that view might be overstating the case a bit, public procurement certainly isn’t working as it should, as Reform’s report An efficiency mindset: prioritising efficiency in Whitehall’s everyday work, convincingly argues. A report from think tank Reform says the public have a feeling that the State simply isn’t working.
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Reliable Construction Cost Estimating
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
A construction cost estimate must be trusted and what is needed by a real property owners, architects, engineers, builders, or oversight groups to plan, procure, and execute a repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build projects. Reliable Construction Cost Estimating. Learnings.
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Government vetoes project bank account proposal
Construction Enquirer
JUNE 16, 2023
The Government has blocked an attempt to amend the planned Procurement Bill to include mandatory project bank accounts for all jobs valued at over £2m. “Government Departments have made a commitment to use PBAs in construction projects unless there are compelling reasons not to do so. ”
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The Unique Challenges of Procurement Planning for Construction Companies
ProcurementExpress.com
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Construction teams face unique procurement challenges due to the complex nature of the business. As technology changes the game, procurement is becoming a strategic juggling act. With that in mind, we’ll look at three of the biggest challenges that construction teams deal with and how they affect procurement planning.
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Job Order Contracting Operations Manual
Job Order Contracting
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Completed Individual Job Orders (IJO), Task Order (TO), or Job Orders (JO) are submitted to the a designated office/person in accordance with regulations and standard procedures. orders and actions required by the Procurement Authority, are planned and discussed to. Procurement Authority with input from the FM team.,
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£9.3bn race starts for National Grid construction partners
Construction Enquirer
MAY 31, 2023
Opting for a collaborative procurement model, The Great Grid Upgrade Partnership will be split into two major lots: covering consultancy and construction works. To set out the new procurement model, National Grid is planning a virtual online bidders day to be held on the week commencing 5 June. (to
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Construction Management and Quickbooks
Carol Hagen
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
As your contracting firm grows your needs typically outgrow what you can do with Microsoft Office so where’s a GC to turn? The challenge is achieving an integrated solution with estimating, scheduling and project management capabilities while addressing detailed job costing.
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Construction Law
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Much, if not all, of 2021 will be spent dealing with the fall out of the Covid-19 pandemic, and hopefully learning from the way the UK mobilised its central government procurement systems to combat it. But was the way the UK responded to the pandemic a procurement success story? There is much to learn.
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Why You Need Integrated Construction Software
Viewpoint Construction Technology
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Without software that connects your back office, project team and field staff, it’s too easy to miss project deadlines. Office and field teams are already disconnected both physically and virtually and manual processes for field employees are error-prone and time-consuming. Data must be delivered to office and re-keyed into software.
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An SBA Public Service Announcement: If You See Something, Say Something
Federal Construction Contracting Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
filed a protest with the contracting officer asserting that Sanford was not a small business because it received significant contract awards between 2019 and 2023, which, when averaged, exceeded the procurement’s applicable size standard. The contracting officer forwarded the protest to the cognizant SBA Area Office (Area Office).
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Best Practice Job Order Contracting
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 29, 2017
County, State, and Local Governments, include secondary education unfortunately continue to use JOC simply as a means to speed delivery and bypass traditional procurement versus as a LEAN collaborative construction delivery method. Best Practice Job Order Contracting. 5117.9004-2 Solicitation. (a) AFARS Revision #21, dated May 22, 2007].
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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 21, 2018
Benefits of an OpenJOC Job Order Contract implementation include an expedited procurement process, and consistent completion of quality projects on-demand, on-time, and on-budget per owners/contractor expectations. Best value procurement. Owner technical and procurement staff is supplemented. The Origins of IDIQ and JOC.
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Whitehall governance problem at heart of procurement inadequacies?
Construction Law
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
It is the same across almost all areas of public spending, as successive reports from independent researchers, government’s own spending overseers in the National Audit Office (NAO), cross-party committees of members of parliament in the Public Accounts Committee and industry bodies. Public procurement in the UK is a mess.
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STRUCTURAL USES OF PRECAST CONCRETE
The Constructor
MARCH 25, 2012
Structural frames are mainly used for offices, car parks and retail developments. Use of Precast Concrete in frames: There are two main types of precast building frame. The structural frame consists of slabs, beams and columns. The cross-wall frame consists of floor slabs and solid walls. It is used mainly for hotels, schools and hospitals.
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6 Ways the COVID-19 crisis will reshape the construction industry
Lets Build
MAY 11, 2020
Companies preferred the traditional office work arrangement for those not working on the field. While construction site workers still need to work on the field, office roles such as those in procurement, client relations, and human resources will have to be fulfilled remotely. Implementation of payroll policies will be reviewed.
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178 Job Order Contract Training and Certification
Job Order Contracting
DECEMBER 14, 2016
I got everything out of the session that I was looking for, and more! – Procurement, State Government Agency . Chief Operations Officer, Mevacon LLC. Presenters were very knowledgeable and showed patience by answering questions during the class and during the breaks. – Facilities Management, State Government Agency .
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Civil Engineering Marvels- 5 Tallest Skyscrappers
The Constructor
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
However, the towers are still the tallest twin buildings and office building in the world. It contains offices and the Shanghai Grand Hyatt hotel. It has been hailed as one of the Seven New Wonders of the World and Seven Wonders of Engineering (Discovery Channel, 2005). It is the exact height of the former World Trade Center.
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Bid race starts for renewal of £750m consultants framework
Construction Enquirer
APRIL 25, 2023
Procurement body Pagabo has issued a prior information notice (PIN) for the renewal of one of its biggest construction frameworks. “The current version of the framework is valued at £500m and has already delivered 826 procurements for clients across the UK – and we expect this to grow even further with the renewal.
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75 STEPS IN ANALYSING A BRIDGE
The Constructor
JANUARY 21, 2012
Another example of idealization is office loading. Think of the contents of a typical office: desks, chairs, filling cabinets, people etc. However this is very inconvenient to analyse as individual components, so it is idealized as a uniform loading as shown below.
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Bridging the gap: 3 steps to improve communication in construction
Lets Build
MARCH 26, 2021
They have their master schedule stuck in MS Project, their 3-6 week lookaheads and procurement programme printed out on paper, and outdated reports trapped in Excel spreadsheets or email threads. Finding a construction-specific digital tool is the first step towards bridging the gap between the site and the office.
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JOC Procedures
Job Order Contracting
DECEMBER 13, 2021
JOC Administrator / Procurement Officer: Procurement professional of record for the government entity, responsible for Job Order Contract administration. Non-Prepriced Line-item (NPP): A line-time cost/task not found in the current unit price book, but within a JOC proposal.
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NG Bailey appoints Sellafield chief as NED
Construction Enquirer
JUNE 5, 2023
Building service contractor NG Bailey has appointed Sellafield chief executive officer Martin Chown as a non-executive board director. Prior to that, he held senior executive roles with Balfour Beatty as procurement and supply chain director and was prior to that procurement chief at GSK.
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RESIDENTIAL BUILDING SITE PLANNING
The Constructor
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
There should be good transport facilities such as railway, bus service, for going to office, college, market, etc. The site should be in fully developed area or in the area which has potential of development. The site should command a good view of landscape such a hill, river, lake, etc.
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