Job Order Contracting (JOC) is a specialized construction delivery method based on predetermined unit construction costs published by the likes of RS Means.
SETEX provides a “Factor” which pro-rates the published construction unit rates based on specified labor, equipment, material or systems costs. These costs are also adjusted based on the location (Region or City/State) of the construction project to take into consideration local market costs. Job Order Contracting is performed on many public projects such as Federal, State and Local Government Entities. It allows a Client to know the contractors rates based on an independent national recognized cost index. SETEX’s staff has performed multi-million dollar contracts through Job Order Contractor.
ob Order Contracting (JOC) is a project delivery method utilized by organizations to get numerous, commonly encountered construction projects done quickly and easily through multi-year contracts with cooperative purchasing programs. JOC is most commonly used for a wise variety of renovation, repair, minor construction and recurring project needs. JOC is well-matched to meet many of the project needs of facility owners involved in public education, municipalities, local, state, or federal agencies and the military, as well as other entities with facility project needs, both public and private.
Through information sharing from the onset to develop detailed project scopes, more projects are completed within critical performance times and in budget with a reduction or elimination of change orders.
A Job Order Contract is a competitively bid, fixed price, multi-year construction contract based on published unit prices via a unit price book (UPB), and can be accessed through purchasing cooperatives. Currently, there are thousands of successful contracts going by the JOC name or by delivery order contracting (DOC), task order contracting (TOC), on-call construction (OCC), IDIQ contracts, and its Defense counterpart of simplified acquisition of base engineering requirements (SABER).
Contact us for more information on how you can utilize your existing purchasing cooperative to access our Job Order Contracting services. We currently offer BuyBoard, Choice Partners and Southeast Texas Purchasing COOP. If you are not a member, we can help you join one of these purchasing cooperatives.
