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TEXAS CHOICE FACILITIES
 HRE has recently teamed with Harris County Department of Education’s Choice Facility program, a cooperative that offers inter-local agreements, helping to meet the needs of Texas educational facilities and governmental organizations.
This JOC program ensures choices for distinct client needs, high quality and performance criteria, and elimination of the bid process for greater ease. This saves time and money without compromising quality. Inter-local agreements and contracts include turn-key concrete buildings as well as job order contracts for remodeling and renovation, especially useful when bond projects authorize quick deployment of work crews or require regular maintenance. HRE provides vetted personnel with extensive expertise.
JOC Basics:
- Job Order Contracts (JOC) are legal, competitively bid contracts for renovations, upgrades and additions to include alterations, major repairs and minor construction activities.
- Available to public and private schools, higher education institutions, cities, counties and other governmental entities in the State of Texas.
- Texas Statutes provide the means for Cooperative Purchasing & JOC type contracting
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Benefits and Advantages:
- Less use of business personnel
- Approved within one day with via execution of the inter-local agreement
- Start work next on the next day
- Used for work that is not cost effective within a school district
- Utilized immediately for catastrophe occurrences such as fire, hurricane, flooding and tornadoes
- Legal, competitive bid contract
- Turn-key construction with the flexibility to supplement traditional contract mechanisms
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- Utilizes local, M/WBE, DBE and HUB subcontractors
- Efficient means of completing projects
- Minimized internal administrative controls
- Published unit pricing for the work. “Open Book” approach
- Build relationships through teamwork and partnering with customers
- Bonded and insured
- Scope of Work negotiable
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| Who Can Use Job Order Contracts (JOC): |
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- School Districts – K through 12
- Universities & Colleges
- City and County Government
- Texas Parks and Wildlife
- Health Science Centers – Texas A&M, Texas Tech
- Nonprofits
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