Key Benefits to JOC:
- Excellent Quality: Partnering and performance incentives produce high quality construction and service. Also, the JOC contractor can prequalify and use only the finest subcontractors. These subcontractors are held to strict quality standards and periodic evaluations.
- Fast and Responsive: Takes 20 to 30 days from request to start of construction. Urgent requests can be done much faster. This speed is possible because projects do not require soliciting and acquiring a contract, detailed plans and specifications, and a long approval process. Having the contractor located on site also contributes to speed and responsiveness. Two years of research at the Center for Job Order Contracting Excellence (CJE) have identified the quick turnaround and delivery time of facility systems as the greatest advantage of the JOC.
- Dependable: Long-term relationship, fixed pricing and simplified paperwork all help in meeting customer expectations for performance and price. The contractor is motivated to impress the facility owner with fast, dependable, quality service in order to receive the maximum possible amount of work from referrals and call backs.
- Simple: The simplified design documents and acquisition process eliminates the need for complicated and repetitive contract documents. Job orders are negotiated on a line-by-line basis under the guidelines and specifications of the overall contract.
- Time and Cost Savings: Three years of investigation at the CJE have shown that the timely and fast construction is the major advantage of JOC. It is obvious that with a performing JOC contractor, the reduction in administration, design, and construction management cost would be substantial, but as of yet, there has not been a comprehensive study to determine the extent of these cost savings.
- Minimal Risk: The JOC process has been proven to work very well at hundreds of locations nationwide. In case there are problems with the contractor, the owner can unilaterally decide to stop using the contract once the guaranteed minimum amount is awarded. Usually this amount is quite small. If a performance based procurement system is used, the JOC contractor can be terminated due to a lack of performance.
