The Agreement and General
Conditions are extremely critical documents in the Job Order Contracting process
since they set forth the
contract requirements. Poorly developed
documents can lead to bid protests and claims as well as a breakdown of the
non-adversarial relationship that is essential to the Job Order Contracting
process.
The
challenge of creating these documents is that each facility owner's standard contract language must be
integrated with Job Order Contracting specific language. Since Job Order
Contracting is a different procurement process, a great deal of the contract
language that has been adopted for traditional construction contracting does
not apply or is inappropriate. The development of the Agreement and General Conditions must be accomplished very
carefully and in full coordination with your legal and contracting staff. If Job Order Contracting is to be used to
execute Federal and State funded projects, then the appropriate Federal and
State contract language must also be included.
The Gordian
Group has been helping facility owners develop Job Order Contracting Agreements
and General
Conditions since 1990. We specialize in
integrating Job Order Contracting specific language with traditional
construction contract language. We are also constantly improving the
contract language based on our actual field experience with
facility owners around the country.