Bid package
Job order contracting proposals
Job order contracting (JOC) proposal preparation organizes your sealed proposal for recurring repair and renovation work priced from a unit price book.
The service
What you send. What you get.
You send
- The solicitation, the price book or list of prepriced items, and all addenda
- The owner's rules for adjusting prices and pricing items that are not prepriced
- Your cost structure by division: labor, material, equipment and overhead assumptions
- Approved facts for the experience, personnel and methodology sections
- The name of your authorized signer
Start with a short description. We arrange document sharing after confirming the work.
You get
- Price book mapThe owner's divisions and line items listed against your cost structure, so your team can see what each coefficient must cover.
- Coefficient worksheetA worksheet by division that records the basis your team supplies. The coefficients stay yours to set.
- Experience and methodology draftSections written from approved facts within the owner's format and page limits.
- Forms checklistRequired forms, statements and signatures listed for your team to complete and confirm.
Typical buyers: Contractors bidding school district, city and state agency JOC solicitations; Specialty contractors that price work from a published unit price book; Estimators and proposal managers new to job order contracting.
What we check
Your bid requirements, organized.
The buyer is a public owner. We list the price book divisions against your cost structure, build a coefficient worksheet by division for your team to set, and draft the experience and methodology sections. JOC rules differ by state. You set the coefficients, sign and submit. We confirm fit and a fixed quote after reviewing the solicitation.
- Price book divisions and line items the owner publishes
- Coefficients or multipliers requested, by division or as one figure
- Price book edition and adjustment rules the solicitation names
- Handling of work items that are not prepriced
- Experience, past performance, personnel and methodology sections requested
- Required forms and bonding statements
Who does what
Bidmere prepares. Your team decides.
The decisions that commit your company stay with your team, every time.
We prepare the package
- Lists each bid requirement and who needs to provide it
- Organizes forms, attachments and deadlines
- Writes proposal sections using facts you approve
- Flags missing information and questions for your team
You approve and submit
- Provides project facts and company information
- Sets rates, pricing and commercial terms
- Approves the draft and signs the forms
- Submits the response before the deadline
Before we start
Questions to resolve and work not included.
Questions we help identify
- Which price book edition and adjustment rules apply
- Division-level exclusions in the price book
- How work that is not prepriced gets priced
- Which state's law governs the solicitation and what it requires
- How bonding works at the job order level
Not included
- Setting coefficients or any commercial terms
- Signing, certifying or submitting the proposal
- Creating or enlarging experience, past performance, references or commitments
- Bonds and insurance, which come from your surety and carrier
- Legal advice on which state law applies
Sources
Where the rules come from.
Questions
About job order contracting.
What is job order contracting?
It is a procurement method for recurring maintenance, repair, alteration, renovation and minor construction where delivery times, types and quantities of work are indefinite. Unit prices come from a published price book or prepriced work items, and bidders propose coefficients that multiply them. State law sets the rules, and they differ by state.
Does one state's JOC law apply in another?
No. Authority, term limits, bonding and evaluation rules vary by state. Texas is one example: Government Code Chapter 2269 has entities advertise and publicly open sealed proposals, lets them ask for experience, past performance, personnel and methodology, and caps the contract term. We work from your owner's solicitation and flag anything that depends on state law for your team to confirm.
Who sets the coefficients?
Your team does. We lay out the price book divisions against your cost structure and record the basis you supply, but the coefficients, commercial terms and bonds are yours. Your company signs and submits the proposal.
Plan your response
Related
Keep reading.
- IDIQ and MATOC contract and task order proposalsIDIQ and MATOC proposal preparation covers two responses: the base multiple-award contract proposal and the task order proposals that follow.
- Public sealed bidsWe organize the forms and attachments for your public construction bid.
- Qualifications packagesWe prepare your response to a request for qualifications (RFQ), statement of qualifications (SOQ) request or prequalification form.
- Prequalification questionnairesPrequalification questionnaire support turns the forms that owners and general contractors send into organized answers drawn from facts you approve.
Send the solicitation details.
We confirm availability, scope, price and timing before any work begins.