Case Study: The City Of The Tontitown

Urban growth is described as the increase in the number of people who live in towns and cities and suburbanisation can be defined as the outward growth of urban development.

Any work required to be done in accordance with the provisions of 41 U.S.C. chapter 65, Contracts for Materials, Supplies, Articles and Equipment Exceeding $15,000;

Choosing the most suitable procurement method for the specified construction project is a long term hard decision; it is a

The United States government is the largest single purchaser of goods and services in the world. Even during times of economic hardship, the US continues to dump billions into the private sector. The federal procurement spending rate of growth has surpassed the rate of U.S. inflation every year, since 2000. With annual federal procurement budgets of more than $400 billion, it is no surprise that the competition for government contracts has increased tremendously. Consequently, more and more companies are trying to get a piece of the action. When these companies adhere to all of the required regulations and statutes, they expect their proposals to be evaluated and the contract awarded in

In this method, the design and the construction roles are combined into a single responsibility and the team is referred to as the Design Build Contractor. The architect is under contract to the contractor and not the owner. The advantages of this method are that the owner is dealing with one contract for the design and construction and does not get involved in the details of the design and construction. The design can be accomplished according to the budget and easily be changed if necessary. Since the maximum price is set in an early stage, this method is faster than the design-bid-build and the construction manager method. However, there are drawbacks to this approach. Since the architect and contractor report to the design/build firm, a conflict is created between the owner and the design/build firm. Also, as the design and construction roles are part of the same team, this can lead to a disadvantage. As the owner is no longer dependent on the architect, the architect’s judgement is no longer provided to the owner and this leads to quality control problems. (what I think if this is the best method or

The lowest amount the firm should accept for the contract is $2,585,000. This is the total of all of the relevant costs for the project.

1. You recently retired from government contracting work and established a consulting company (fully consistent with government ethics laws and rules, of course) with the primary focus of advising potential government contractors and subcontractors. Mr. Johnny Jones, of The Johnny Jones Flooring and Construction Company has approached you with a question. Jones and his company are potential subcontractors (they, obviously, specialize in flooring) on a federal construction contract worth a little over two million dollars ($ 2,000,000.00) recently awarded to the Jimmy Smith Construction Company (Jimmy Smith, the prime contractor). Neither Johnny nor his company have ever been part of a government contract

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The owner hired some consultants prior to calling for tendering, and the consultant’s estimations for the cost of the project including enough profit was not far from the “mistaken” figure of the complainant.

Steeltown U.S.A. was a great read! I enjoyed reading all about Youngstown and the challenges the town had to face. Chapter 4: From “Steel Town” to a “Nice Place to Do Time” was personally one of the best chapters in the book. It was so terribly sad to read about everything the once successful industrialized town had later became. In only twenty short years, Youngstown had evolved into this corrupt place; they even went as far to call it the “murder capital.” Once the mills shut down, the town took a major downfall. Poverty, drugs, and crime started to replace the legacy Youngstown once held.

Pilgrim Assurance is a case that involves a sealed bid auction. Therefore, the auctioneers will need to sell the building to the highest bidder involved at a minimum bid of $15 million. David Bailey is given the decision to decide on how much to bid for an office building. Furthermore, he needs to make the decision whether to lease it as office space or to convert this office space into condominiums. In this case, I will analyze the goals and objectives of Bailey as well as the other participants. The sealed bid auction indicates that they are willing to take a chance on the market and try to receive high bids. There is no problem with the government participant besides using permits to do renovations. There is

There was no formal bidding process. In addition, it appeared that not all bidders were treated equally. This can be seen when the bidding process was opened back up after the contractors were narrowed down to

3. If the contract doesn’t have applicable and similar cost in it, the contractor should propose a cost and submit to the stakeholders to get a approval, and carry out.

Erik and I chose three great ideas. These ideas included building a skatepark, which has been trying to pass for a while now, a nature-walk, and a theater. Most people chose the theater choice. We chose theater because it would make the majority of people pleased. A movie theater is a great way for families to bond and connect and also a good hang-out place for teenagers;It’s fun and it’s affordable. This is quite necessary for the Frederick Trit-town. There is not many things that are local to do in Frederick and not everyone has a car. The location will be in Frederick, which is in the middle of Firestone and Dacono, encouraging kids to exercise to get to the location. The cost of the theater can range up to 2 million dollars with just the

of a low bidder to do a project, even though most procurement rules state that