What is Job Order Contracting?
Job Order Contracting (JOC) is a competitively bid, firm-fixed-price construction delivery method for repair, maintenance, renovation and minor construction. It uses an indefinite delivery / indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, with individual job orders priced from a shared price book and the contractor’s coefficient.
Start here
A clear path from the fundamentals to the finer details.
What is Job Order Contracting?
One competitively bid contract framework, a shared price book, and individually scoped job orders.
Where JOC came from
A backlog of small facility projects led to a shared contract and pricing framework.
How job orders work
Follow a school corridor repair from the site walk to the issued order and closeout.
Writing a clear scope of work
A site-meeting checklist and a corridor scope that connects observations to priced tasks.
Understanding unit price books
What unit prices include, how entries map to a corridor scope, and how to check quantities.
How coefficients work
Apply the contractor’s bid factor to measured work and the correct working-hours category.
JOC for owners and contractors
A practical division of scope, estimating and review tasks for the same corridor job.
Getting started with JOC
Two checklists: owners considering a program and contractors evaluating a solicitation.
A shared book. A simple calculation.
Understand the inputs before you look at the total.
Apply the calculation to each line item, then add the results.
Who this is for
Different roles. A common understanding.
Public owners
Explore the framework and the questions to ask before setting up a program.
Contractors
Understand coefficients, proposals and what to look for in a solicitation.
Subcontractors
See how your scope fits into the bigger picture of a job order.
Estimators
Make sense of line items, quantities and the pricing calculation.
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