Job Order Contracting Benefits
Job Order Contracting benefits all participants and stakeholders – facilities management, DPW, engineering, real property owners, facility users, procurement, contractors and oversight groups.
JOC concept has several key advantages over the traditional design-bid-build, design-build, and virtually all other construction construction delivery method, exclusive of integrated project delivery, IPD. That said, JOC is a form of IPD that specifically targets renovation, repair, and minor new construction. IPD, on the other hand, targets major new construction.
Though the benefit of Job Order Contracting are significant, users of this method typically undergo a change management process in order to be able to fully adopt and deploy all related processes, procedures, and tools.
Job Order Contracting Benefits
- Response Time – faster response to client/end user requests for construction services
- Shorter Overall Project Delivery Time
- Reduction is Administrative Burden and/or Costs
- Lower Design Costs
- Higher Constructability
- Fewer Change Orders
- Virtual Elimination of Legal Disputes
- Higher Percentage of Dollars Spent on Actual Construction
- Reduced Deferred Maintenance
- More Productive Use of Internal Facilities Management Staff
- Enhanced Financial Visibility
- Improved Quality
- Higher Levels of Satisfaction Among ALL participants
- Long Term Relationships
- Benefit of Local Knowledge without Sacrificing Global Oversight
- Quantitative Metrics
- Availability of Tools and Enabling Technology
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