Demystifying Job Order Contracting – A Practical Demonstration

Public sector organizations expect a lot from their procurement teams. In an effort to support client departments, including Facilities and Public Works functions, many procurement shops find themselves spread too thinly. What would it look like instead to work strategically, redistributing effort to where it makes the most impact while still meeting client needs?

You may have heard about Job Order Contracting in the holistic and abstract sense, but what does it look like in practice? JOC is a procurement approach for construction services that is underpinned by proprietary cost data. Join procurement practitioners now in national cooperative purchasing organizations and learn step by step what it looks like to engage contractors through this innovative and collaborative procurement method.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the value of strategic procurement through group purchasing organizations and co-operative programs like Job Order Contracting.  
• Virtually walk through a JOC project workflow from concept to completion.  
• Understand the key roles of procurement and facilities leaders have in modernizing construction procurement in their organization.