It’s critical to take the time to monitor and improve your Job Order Contracting processes as they are not as you think they might be.
Job Order Contracting (JOC) has been distorted into a way to simply speed the procurement of repair, renovation, and new build construction, bypassing procurement rigors and doing little to assure mutually beneficial benefit to owners and design-builder or overall efficiency. Costs of JOC administration have also skyrocketed to 3% to 10%+ of construction value.
What LEAN Job Order Contracting?
LEAN Job Order Contracting is a series of actions repeated in a progression from a defined or recognized ‘start’ to a defined or recognized ‘finish’, to establish and maintain a commonly understood flow that allows all type of construction tasks to be completed as efficiently and consistently as possible.
All the tools and support services to implement and manage LEAN Job Order Contracting for any public sector organization are now available within the 4BT-PEP JOC Knowledge-based Information Management System. Each step of a robust process assures consistent on-time, on-budget, quality construction delivery and is maintained with a digital footprint.
Benefits of LEAN Job Order Contracting include…
- Objective fact-based insights and decision-support
- Faster, cheaper, and more verifiable other approaches
- Enhanced owner and design-builder capabilities
- Full financial and technical visibility and transparency
- 100% real-time view of all you JOC Programs, Contracts, Projects, Proposals, Estimates
- Quantification of impacts
- Alignment of planning, procurement, and project delivery and teams
- Outcomes your organization cares about.
Job Order Contracting Program Checklist
- Do you have a written JOC Operations Manual or JOC Execution Guide?
- Have you selected JOC contractors based upon BEST VALUE?
- Do you manage your JOC Program directly versus outsource management to a JOC Consultant?
- Is your JOC Program audited regularly by an independent third party?
- Does your technical team (engineering/facilities management) and procurement team review detailed line-item estimate prepared by your JOC contractor(s)?
- Can you automatically compare two estimates (government and contractor) and show differences in seconds?
- Do you prepare a detailed line item estimate in-house for JOC projects over a set dollar threshold?
- Are you using a locally researched Open Unit Price Book, complete with labor, equipment, and material details, and provided from a source INDEPENDENT of anyone involved in managing your JOC, AND not using a national average price book and location factors?
- Are you using a cloud-based system, specifically designed for JOC?
- Does your JOC software calculate non-pre-priced items in dollars and percentage for each JOC project?
- Can all participants view CURRENT information in real-time?
- Cam your JOC software view and access Revit drawings, images, documents, etc.?
- Is your JOC Program based upon LEAN collaborative construction delivery principles?
- Does your JOC Program equally support owners AND contractors to deliver win-win results?
If you answered “NO” to any of the above…. it’s time to talk!