A City Administrator in Calgary is pushing forward a recommendation that the City adopt social concerns as part of their procurement system.
Category: Procurement Management
ProcureCon 2020 – I’m Speaking – Why This Year’s ProcureCon Facilities Conference Will be Great!
This year’s conference seems to be the most comprehensive event yet.
Industry Watch – Late Payments – How the Construction Industry is Working to Mitigate the Impact of Late Payments and What Owners Need to be Leery of.
The problem has been building for a long time and it all came to a head in January 2018 when the second largest construction company in the UK (Carillion) went bankrupt.
Best Practices – Retainage – How Contractors are Avoiding Retainage and How it Hurts Owners.
This had the net effect of holding back the Contractor’s entire fee as a guarantee that they would complete the work.
Best Practices – Contracts – Why You DON’T Want a Detailed Cost Break-down in Your Stipulated Sum Contract.
Be sure that when you move into contracting, you have a firm understanding of how your contract is structured.
Industry Watch – Construction Safety – It Is Not The “Other Guy’s” Responsibility!
Everyone from Laborers to Architects have a fundamentally principle duty to ensure everyone on a construction site is safe.
Best Practices – Sourcing Suppliers – The Top 7 Places Where you Can Source Suppliers.
In this article, I share the top resources I use to ensure each of bid ends with at least three qualified bidders.
Best Practices – Informal Quotations – How Informal Quotes Hurt You and What You Should be Aware of When You Request One.
If you must go down this path, be aware of how these shortcuts impact you.
Best Practices – Overhead Costs – What Constitutes Overhead Costs and Why Your Projects Should Not Be Paying Them.
Despite alignment on quoting these costs separately, there still seems to be little to no consistency.
Best practices -Negotiations – How A Shoe Shine Helped Remind Me About Fundamental Principles of Negotiations and Good Business.
The business lessons I got from Joseph will stay with me much longer.
Industry Watch – The Builder’s Lien Act – How Manitoba is Taking on the topic of Prompt Payment by Modernizing the Builder’s Lien Act.
One of the strategies for maximizing the value of capital is to extend payment terms.
Review – AIA Conference 2019 – Highlights From A’19 in Las Vegas.
Every year the American Institute of Architects hosts a 3 day conference, This year the AIA conference was held in Las Vegas.