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For Facilities & Infrastructure Support


Job Order Contracting:

  • Allows any publicly funded organization the ability to get more done with their facilities & infrastructure needs
  • Improves the responsiveness and results in facilities construction projects focused on renovation, rehabilitation, remolding and repairs
  • Respond quickly to emergency facility and infrastructure needs
  • Allows you to go through the cost of procurement of a JOC contractor and program up-front, not on every project
  • Allows you to utilize local small and minority businesses - helping the local economy
  • Improves project communications and cooperation
  • Improves innovation in solutions, ideas and cost management
  • Not the answer to all construction needs, not a silver bullet solution to any construction project - but has it's place in the tool box of contracting solutions
  • On time, on budget and result oriented
  • Targets Zero Punch Lists
  • Eliminates costs associated with claims and legal
  • Clearly around projects based on detailed individual project scope documents and detailed project line item estimates

Job Order Contracting Elements
Key Elements Of JOC

Key Elements Of JOC

  • Competitively awarded umbrella contract with undefined Statement of Work (SOW)
  • Broad assortment of types of work to be supported
  • Unit price book based
  • No or minimal contractual guarantee of work 
  • Individually priced delivery orders based on a competitively bid coefficient and definitive SOW
  • Individual delivery orders are firm fixed price upon issuance of delivery order
  • Facilities & infrastructure construction focused on renovation, rehabilitation, remodeling and repair

 

Features
  • An ongoing program not a single project
  • Long-term (average is 5 years)
  • Base period and option periods
  • Predictable costs, on target budgets
  • Can adjust scope to get to budget without a new lengthy procurement
  • Minimizes change orders - over 95+% of change orders are owner requested
  • Rapid and reliable on schedule execution
  • Consistent quality and safety
  • Minimal design with maximum value engineering
  • Responsive and knowledgeable local staff
  • Become extension of Owner’s staff
  • Increases opportunities for small local subcontractors
  • Accommodates socio-economic policy goals
  • Reduces adversarial climate
  • Continued work dependent on successful performance
  • Creates aligned objectives with Owner

Job Order Contracting Helps Owners
Postive Results

What Makes JOC Successful - From The Owners Perspective

  • A delivery order within their budget
  • The line items and quantities used in the estimate are appropriate for the SOW
  • Improved use of small & minority businesses in the local community
  • If JOC contractor performs poorly, you can stop sending projects to them at any time
  • If the JOC contractor performs well, you gain a long term partner and trusted advisor on getting maximum use out of your facilities and other infrastructure 
  • Quick delivery order start
  • On-time completion
  • A quality project
  • A safe project
What Makes JOC Successful - From The Contractors Perspective
 ·        Reasonable, factual based negotiations
 ·        Early involvement in the process
 ·        Consistent workflow attempts to smooth out peaks
 ·        If you consistenly meet the customer's expectations, then you earn additional work
 ·        Timely payment of invoices
 ·        Earning a reasonable profit
 ·        Good references to other owners

To Learn More Please Go To:

The Center For JOC Excellence:
www.JOCexcellence.org
 
General Information On Job Order Contracting From CJE:
 
What Is JOC?
 
Why JOC?
 
JOC Overview