Download or read book Residential Construction Performance Guidelines Consumer Reference Pack of 10 written by National Association of Home Builders and published by Builderbooks. This book was released on 2016 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAHB's Residential Construction Performance Guidelines were created to offer a third-party view of quality issues in residential construction (both new homes and remodeling). The Consumer Reference makes it easy to provide a copy of the guidelines to every customer. Sold in affordable packs of 10, the Consumer Reference is a great addition to your warranty claims process and: Help customers understand the basics of a properly constructed home and how it should perform during the warranty period Take action to resolve customer concerns before they escalate to complaints Exhibit your professionalism by showing that you consistently meet or exceed accepted industry guidelines Includes Residential Construction Performance Guidelines for: Site Work and Foundation Floors, Walls, and Roofs

Download or read book Examining Contractor Performance and Government Management of Retroactive Pay for Retired Veterans with Disabilities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Domestic Policy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oversight of Contractor Performance Information written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federal Contractors written by Shay D. Assad and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In FY 2007, fed. agencies worked with over 160,000 contractors, obligating over $456 billion, to help accomplish fed. missions. This reliance on contractors makes it critical that agencies have the info. necessary to properly evaluate a contractor's prior history of performance and better inform agencies' contract award decisions. While actions have been taken to improve the sharing of past performance info. and its use -- including the development of the Past Performance Info. Retrieval System (PPIRS) -- concerns remain about this info. This report assesses agencies' use of past performance info. in awarding contracts; identifies challenges that hinder sharing of past performance info.; and describes efforts to improve contractor performance info. Illus.

Download or read book The Environmental Protection Agency s Superfund ARCS Contracting Process and Contractor Performance written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Performance based Construction Contractor Prequalification written by Douglas D. Gransberg and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2009 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Procedures for Contractor Reporting of Correlated Cost and Performance Data written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Measuring Service Contract Performance written by Andrew P. Hunter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researching and manufacturing fighters, ships, and tanks are only part of the picture for defense contracts. Contracting for services accounts for over 41 percent of DoD contract obligations in 2018. Services include maintaining equipment, moving people and things, creating software, providing server space, and construction. Service contracting is challenging as services can be difficult to define and measure. But services are increasingly central to the U.S. economy. The Department of Defense seeks to attract new firms that will increase its speed and agility—many of these firms are service providers, e.g., data analytics or cloud computing. CSIS looked at a million contracts to evaluate how three factors influence performance: 1.service complexity 2.contract-management capacity 3.vendor’s history working with a DoD contracting office The existing data fails to explain large differences in contract office performance. More DoD transparency about contracting office capacity could help make a case for further investments. The report also found that when vendors and contracting offices have a longer history, they tend to have better results. That means DoD needs to think not only about recruiting new partners, but also about helping them succeed.

Download or read book Contractor performance written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Management Measurement Verification of Performance Contracting written by James P. Waltz and published by The Fairmont Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Written by a leading expert in the field of measurement and verification, this book provides a truly authoritative resource on the skill and art of managing and monitoring performance contracted energy projects. Following a brief review of the fundamental concepts of performance contracting, the author guides the reader through every aspect of actually implementing a successful performance contract. You'll find out what can lead a project to go wrong, as well as how to monitor and verify a project's true performance all along the way. Numerous case studies and specific project examples are used to clearly illustrate the concepts presented. Comprehensive in scope, and drawn from the author's years of practical experience in the field, this book is essential reading for anyone who is either already involved with or considering use of performance contracting.

Download or read book Contractor Performance Evaluation Policies Procedures written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Carolina Department of Transportation establishes a Contract Performance Evaluation System to determine and assign a Contractor Performance Score. This document provides an overview and brief explanation of the Contractor Performance Score, Contractor Performance Threshold, and the Minimum Required Contractor Performance Score for bidding.

Download or read book Rethinking Earned Value Schedule Management on Construction Projects written by J. Gerard Boyle and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an essential, groundbreaking book for public and private buyers of construction, contractors and sub-contractors, designers, project managers, lawyers, Earned Value specialists, forensic claims analysts, schedulers, dispute resolution experts, academics, and anyone interested in improving performance and productivity on construction projects. Among the topics discussed are the following: - Exhaustive critique of existing Earned Value analysis that compels changes to current theory and practice - New Earned Value analytics for construction, integrated with resource-loaded CPM schedules represent a paradigm change - Worked examples of resource-loaded CPM schedules using the new EV Performance analytics - Identification of reliable performance thresholds for progress, productivity and resources - Understanding the interconnection of progress and productivity and performance patterns over time - How to create meaningful, resource-loaded, CPM schedules - Analyzing schedule float in concert with the new analytics - Why current cause and effect delay analysis is fundamentally flawed because it ignores root causes - Why delay claim analysis must always account for productivity - The problem common to all contract delivery methods and how to correct it - Why construction projects fail - Specific steps in creating a successful construction program - Game theoretical & other approaches to implementing a performance-based system - Using commercial dispute resolution to contemporaneously resolve claims and improve performance going forward - The importance of probabilistic (Monte Carlo) schedule analysis & problems with current practice

Download or read book Winning with Past Performance written by Jim Hiles and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use past performance to win contracts and deliver results at the lowest risk and cost! The federal government has focused on past performance to rank bidders for almost two decades, yet both the collection and use of past performance information remain disjointed, siloed, and not fully understood in government or industry. Nonetheless, contractors' livelihoods depend on how the government collects and uses their past performance information. Winning with Past Performance: Strategies for Industry and Government aims to enhance awareness and understanding of past performance processes as well as to promote smart business practices on both the buyer and seller sides of the equation. The authors examine all aspects of past performance, including using feedback to improve performance, the government's evolving use of past performance, and the future of past performance as an evaluation tool. Winning with Past Performance brings it all together on the subject of past performance and is a ready reference for buyers, sellers, policymakers, contracting professionals, and service providers.

Download or read book Designing for Success written by Benjamin Manning Brunjes and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation assesses how public contract managers can design contracts to influence contractor performance. Public officials control whether contracts are competitively sourced, the financial structures used on contracts, and occasionally wield even greater discretion over contract design. These steps occur early in the contracting cycle, when public officials develop work requirements and the overall plan for implementing the contract. Using data on complex definitive contracts from the Federal Procurement Data System - Next Generation, this research assesses how contract design elements are used and how these design elements affect performance. The dissertation introduces a new measure of contractor performance based on the way contracts end. Findings indicate that competitively sourced contracts are more likely to terminate early, suggesting that competition is not the silver bullet that many believe it to be. Experienced contractors are much less likely to have their contracts terminated, implying that relationships between government and contractor are important. Findings also show that contracting officials select financial structures based on the presence of transaction costs, indicating an understanding and application of economic theory in practice. Cost-reimbursement contracts, which provide little financial incentive for good performance, are much more likely to terminate early than other types of contracts. Contracts completed using simplified acquisition procedures, which grant public managers wide discretion over contract design, are less likely to terminate early than other contracts, providing evidence that managers are able to use their expertise to design better performing contracts. However, these contracts may not be meeting equity goals as expressed in the Federal Acquisition Regulation, perhaps showing a preference for efficient performance over other objectives. Taken together, this research indicates that steps taken early in the contracting cycle can influence contractor performance. As in other areas of public administration, these findings are further evidence that managerial actions are important for the outputs and outcomes of governance initiatives.

Download or read book Federal Contractors written by Kent Hayes and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor performance under a federal contract can have immediate consequences for contractors, who could be denied award or incentive fees, required to pay liquidated damages, or terminated for default. In addition, it could affect their ability to obtain future contracts because various provisions of federal law require agencies to evaluate contractors' "past performance" and consider past performance information when making source selection decisions in negotiated procurements and when determining whether prospective contractors are "responsible." "Past performance" refers to contractors' performance on "active and physically completed contracts." This book provides an overview of existing legal requirements pertaining to past performance, including the issues raised by contractors' attempts to challenge (1) agency evaluations of their past performance, (2) source selection decisions based, in part, on consideration of past performance information, and (3) responsibility determinations.

Download or read book Guide to Performance based Operations Contracting written by William A. Hyman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oversight of Contractor Performance Information written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oversight of contractor performance information : hearing before the Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, March 6, 2014.