10 Ways To Get the Most Out of Your Job Order Contract

Understand your strategy and goals. Do you want only to speed renovation and repair projects, or improve them?
Be sure you have a team in place to manage and support your JOC Program. Don’t expect you can depend heavily upon a JOC consultant or otherwise “outsource” the process. JOC requires direct and ongoing owner participation.
Understand what best value means… not just to your organization, but to your JOC construction contractors.
Identify the types of documents and reports that will be required of all participants and stakeholder.
Use locally researched cost data. Do not depend upon location factors and a national average cost book.
Assure you JOC unit price book is appropriately sized. Approximately 30,000 line items is typically sufficient for even larger JOC Programs. Excessively large JOC UPBs add to initial costs as well as reduce overall JOC program efficiency by creating confusion and unnecessary work for users.
Use your current construction specifications and make them part of the contract. Why would you require different technical specifications simply because it’s a JOC? If you don’t have construction specifications, take advantage of currently available sets that can be purchased and adjusted to your requirements (Masterspec/SpecLink, etc.)
Begin training for your team while developing your JOC Program, well in advance of “go live”.
Require regular and multi-level training for all JOC participants.
Support your JOC Program with cloud-based technology.

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