United States Government agency FM strategy and management has remained inefficient and without proper oversight for decades.
Lacking leadership, capacity, and accountability, they are still remain unable or unwilling to quantify and manage the returns on FM investment. Other countries, such as the UK for example, are realizing that early engagement of the real property owner, the end user, and the planning, procurement, and project delivery teams are critical to improving overall repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction outcomes.
The needs and scope associated with efficient management of built environment have been identified, and solutions have been available, for decades. Nonetheless, government agencies continue fail to adopt robust frameworks that integrate objective, current, and locally researched granular labor, material, and equipment costs with Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Job Order Contracting (such at 4BT’s OpenJOC(TM) Framework, as efficient project delivery methods. The latter providing greater increased scope of work (SOW) and cost transparency and detail, and overall enhanced communication on an early and ongoing basis.
