OPEN Job Order Contracting – LEAN Construction Service Procurement and Project Delivery

Open Job Order Contracting, as embodied within the OpenJOC(TM) Solution, integrates LEAN construction best management practices (BMPs) with collaborative cloud technology to enable efficient, best value construction services outcomes.

LEAN Construction Best Management Practices – The following is a listing of requisite core elements of any LEAN procurement and construction delivery process:

• Early and ongoing collaboration among all participants and stakeholders
• Written execution guide or operations manual
• Common data environment including locally researched unit price cost data organized via a data architecture standard (i.e. CSI Masteformat)
• Mutual trust and respect
• Shared risk and reward
• Required initial and ongoing training
• Continuous improvement
• Owner leadership

OpenJOC Job Order Contracting provides the following benefits:

• Design and implementation of tailored “turnkey” solutions.
• Integration of BMPs, locally researched cost data, and enabling cloud technology to support opportunity identification, budgeting, project scope development, cost estimating, owner/contractor negotiations, and monitoring/reporting.
• Significant reduction in JOC Program implementation and management costs.
• Reduced project delivery times.
• JOC Program compliance
• JOC Program transparency
• Risk mitigation
• Support for all JOC Program/Project sizes
• Fully auditable
• Ongoing training and support

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