WHAT IS JOB ORDER CONTRACTING?
A significant portion of taxpayer funds are allocated to facilities and other physical infrastructure to ensure quality of life. How public sector procurement, facilities management, and oversight groups develop, operate, maintain, reuse, and recycle these assets is critical to our economic, environmental, and social well-being. Furthermore, best value facilities and asset management is a mandate for public service procurement and facilities management professionals.
Properly developed and implemented, Job Order Contracting (JOC), a LEAN procurement and project delivery method, can assure numerous, commonly encountered repair, renovation, and construction projects are procured and executed quickly and easily through alliance contracts.
JOC is most commonly used to clear deferred maintenance backlog, as well as efficiently meet a wide range of construction project needs.
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LEAN Job Order Contract is a competitively bid, fixed price, multi-year construction
contract based on locally researched unit prices via a unit price book (UPB). Awarded JOC contractors build project cost
proposals using the locally researched UPB and then apply a multiplier (also sometimes
called a factor or JOC coefficient) to the resultant line item estimate total. The benefits of a locally researched UPB
include clear communication of the scope of work and fully transparent
financials for each and every project. A
JOC is an IDIQ or indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract for on-demand
construction services and a LEAN procurement and construction delivery method.