The primary focus of any “best practice” Job Order Contract is to develop, support, and manage long term win-win relationships between Owners and Contractors, resulting in quality construction projects delivered on-time and on-budget to the satisfaction of all participants. This is specifically what the 4BT OpenJOC approach is designed to do.
- Job Order Contracting services and solutions should be independent, objective, and cost effective.
- If you are a real property owners, cooperative, or contractor and are looking for a better alternative to your existing job order contracting service and solutions provider, consider giving us a call.
- We would love to discuss your needs. We are low key, no pressure folks with decades of experience with unit price books, job order contracting, and JOC software. Our team has worked serving hundreds of JOC owners and thousands of JOC contractors.
- Our unit price book is second to none.
A JOC unit price book (UPB) should reflects accurate material, equipment, and labor cost that are locally researched, use properly implemented Davis-Bacon labor rates, and be represented using industry standard common terms.
While the pedigree of the 4BT JOC UPB dates back to being used with the very first Army/DOD Job Order Contracts deployed in the United States, our team has applied their significant JOC/cost engineering expertise to provide a solution likely to become the new industry standard. Our unit price cost data is maintained and regularly updated by experience cost engineers/researchers dedicated to the construction & Job Order Contracting industry. In addition to being the most cost-effective solution, it likely represents the only viable industry alternative to solutions provided by The RSMeans Company, LLC and/or The Gordian Group.
The 4BT JOC UPB is comprised of approximately 60,000 unit price line items/construction tasks and includes labor, material, equipment detail, demolition line items, and line item modifiers. While some vendors market hundreds of thousands of line items, our experience has shown that most JOCs use far less than 60,000 line items on a regular basis. In fact, an excessive number of line items contribute to delays in learning, errors, and confusion. In situations where additional and/or unique/custom construction task line items are required, the associated number rarely exceed a few hundred.
Most Job Order Contracts require that individual task orders/construction projects not exceed a ten percent maximum of total project cost associated with line items not found within the current UPB (non-prepriced line items). Our experience is that the 4BT OpenJOC Unit Price Book meets this threshold.
- Our technology is second to none.
4BT-CE is a fully compliant cloud-based Job Order Contract Management Information System. It was designed and developed from the ground up, specifically for JOC, to enable users of all capabilities to easily and rapidly access and use current, accurate, and detailed information, as well as support collaboration and transparent access to all participants. The required workflows and management practices for a fully compliant JOC Program are embedded within and supported by the 4BT-CE system.
Contract, product, estimate, and document creation, access, and management can easily be supported with our technology framework.
- Our education, training and support is second to none.
Training is available in multiple formats:
• Virtual/Online Instructor-based,
• Virtual/Online Self-paced,
• Regional and,
• On-site
Owners will learn how to build a better independent government/owner estimate, and contractors will learn how to create more detailed proposal in detailed line item format, as well as how to bid, procure, and execute more projects on-time and on-budget.
We focus upon enabling better collaboration and continuous improvement by integrating the best possible training based upon experience and leveraging technology for training and process deployment.
All training classes feature highly qualified instructors. Instructors with previous experience training for organizations such as the R.S. Means Company, LLC, and the Alliance for Construction Excellence. CEU credits can be made available. For all hands-on training classes it is assumes that attendees have required computer equipment and software, and a suitable classroom environment is provided for on-site/regional training.
- Our JOC solutions carry the lowest fees in the industry.
