Early Contractor Involvement is a mandatory component in any real property owner process designed to ensure consistent delivery of quaility repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build projects on-time and on-budget.
The issues associated with Traditional Construction* Project Delivery (DB, DBB, CMAR…) are clear.
- Lack of Detailed Line-item based Plans & Specs
- Change Orders
- Disputes
- Adversarial
- Cost/Schedule Growth
Introduce capacity for innovation via collaboration and early contractor involvement
Collaborative Project Delivery (Integrated Project Delivery and Advanced Job Order Contracting)
- Non-traditional Program-centric Project Administration
- Preconstruction integrated team collaboration (owner, design/builder, planning/procurement/project delivery)
- Improved Design Quality – Constructability
- Objective, verifiable, current, standardized, local market granular cost data
- Increased understanding of market conditions
- Pricing feedback from industry during design development
- Fast Tracking
- Earned Value Management Focus
- Shared risk of cost increases
- Mitigated change orders and disputes
- 90%+ On-time/On-budget
- Contractor incentivized to collaboratively work with Government team to meet cost objectives
Early contractor involvement ensures consistent quality, timely delivery, & cost control for government real property owners.
*Construction = repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds