Partnering via 4BT OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting enables quality repair, renovation, and minor new construction projects to be consistently delivered on-demand, on-time, and on-budget.
Also, financial transparency, regulatory compliance, cost savings, and satisfaction among all participants and stakeholders is the norm versus the exception. Beat that with any other construction procurement and delivery process…. you can’t.
Even the Army Corps of Engineers understands and promotes the value of partnering relative to facilities sustainment (ACOE Partnering ). Unfortunately, very few public sector owners have the leadership, competency,or ability to deploy and manage collaborative construction delivery methods.
Projects that fully engage in partnering, result in successfully completed projects for USACE, along with fewer claims, better financial results, and performance evaluations for contractors.
USACE has been asked by contractor’s organizations to have formal partnering. Stakeholders should appropriately be invited to participate in partnering.Partnering is a way to reduce the confrontations on a contract and build a collaborative project focused team. It is an organized process by which multiple stakeholders with shared interests perform as a team to achieve project success with benefits accrued to all. It requires empowering team members to solve problems at the lowest organizational level possible. A successful partnering arrangement: removes organizational impediments to communication; results in acceptance by all parties to maintain and improve the partnering process; requires open
communication and active listening, especially on challenges to progress and demonstrates a personal commitment by every member of the team. It is not a waiver of a party’s contractual rights and responsibilities – it is a recognition and respect of those rights and responsibilities and a willingness to work together to help all stakeholders fulfill them.It is in the Government’s best interests and it is consistent with the Government’s implicit duty to act in a fair and reasonable manner.
Army Corps of Engineers – No. 2017-14 – ENGINEERING AND
CONSTRUCTION BULLETIN