Using_the_Construction_Task_Catalog_Summary.pdf
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- DWMR JOCs 213 214 215
- Solicitation number
- 65137
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- California
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The document is a summary of the Construction Task Catalog® Adjustment Factors, potentially associated with a construction project for the County of California (DWMR JOCs 213 214 215). The document outlines a comprehensive list of business and project-related costs that contractors must include in their adjustment factors when bidding on construction tasks. These adjustment factors cover a wide range of expenses, including office overhead, insurance, profit, project management, safety equipment, permits, clean-up, and various operational risks.
The pricing mechanism for this contract is straightforward: compensation is calculated as Unit Price × Quantity × Adjustment Factor, with no additional payments allowed. Contractors are explicitly responsible for reviewing and analyzing unit prices, and must calculate their adjustment factors accordingly before bidding. The document emphasizes that all costs exceeding the unit prices must be incorporated into the adjustment factors, and the list provided is not exhaustive but intended to give general guidance on cost inclusions. The approach appears designed to provide transparency and predictability in construction task pricing while placing the onus on contractors to comprehensively account for potential project expenses.
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Using the Construction Task Catalog® (Summary) – Adjustment factors Inclusion
The Adjustment Factors include the following costs, unless specifically excluded by the terms of the Contract Documents:
BUSINESS COSTS:
1. Office overhead, including, but not limited to, office space, office equipment, office and management personnel, office supplies, and employee transportation.
2. Insurance and bonding.
3. Profit (GC and Subs).
4. Overhead (Subs)
5. Job Order development services, Owner meetings, and other administrative services required by the Contract Documents.
6. Cost of financing the work.
7. Business risks such as the risk of a lower than expected volume of work, smaller than anticipated Job Orders, poor Subcontractor performance, and inflation or material cost fluctuations.
PROJECT RELATED COSTS:
8. Project trailer, equipment and supplies, and portable toilets for Contractor’s use.
9. Project management and project supervision.
10. Services required to complete project filings and obtain permits.
11. Preparation and modification of sketches, drawings, submittals, as-built drawings, and other project records.
12. Incidental engineering and architectural services.
13. Gang boxes and storage containers for Contractor's tools, equipment and materials.
14. Basic safety and warning signage, minor barricades (e.g., construction tape, etc.) and personnel safety equipment (e.g., hard hats, safety harnesses with lifeline or cabling, protective clothing, safety glasses, face shields, etc.).
15. Meeting Owner’s security requirements.
16. All taxes for which a waiver is not available including material sales tax and equipment rental.
17. Removing and returning Owner's furniture and furnishings (e.g. chairs, tables, pictures, etc. but excluding modular furniture, furnishings fastened to the wall or floor, safes and other furniture requiring disassembly).
18. Sealing windows doors, and other openings with plastic to contain construction dust and debris within the work area, or to protect existing surfaces.
19. Working in extreme temperatures (below or above normal) or adverse conditions such as rain, wind, sleet or snow. Costs resulting from inadequate supply of building materials, fuel, electricity, or skilled labor.
20. Costs resulting from inadequate supply of building
21. materials, fuel, electricity, or skilled labor.
22. Daily clean-up.
23. Final professional clean-up.
PRICE VARIATIONS:
Contractors may experience direct costs that are different than the unit prices set forth in the Construction Task Catalog. While diligent effort was made to provide accurate, unit prices, it is the Contractor’s responsibility to review and analyze the unit prices, and to calculate, prior to bidding, the Adjustment Factors accordingly.
SUMMARY:
1. This list is not exhaustive and is intended to provide general examples of costs to be included in the Contractor's adjustment Factors.
2. The only compensation to be paid to the Contractor for Tasks will be: Unit Price X Quantity X Adjustment Factor.
3. No additional payments of any kind whatsoever will be made.
4. All costs in excess of the unit prices, must be included in the Adjustment Factors.
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