The DOE Orange Button collaboration group has offered to work with any school interested in modernizing their procurement and contract administration by transitioning to digital for reducing project costs and enabling innovation, and to work with contractors and developers to learn about and leverage the efficiency of digital for easier access to surety credit.
Contractors, including solar installers, interact with various stakeholders in the procurement and administration of construction projects and are also subject to regulatory reporting and compliance.
IT systems will include the contractor accounting and project management systems along with supporting systems for specific functionality.
Streamlining the processing and administration of project data not only saves contractors directly, there are also savings for subcontractors and in the supply chain that can result in lower contract costs to be more competitive.
Many IT system are creating new innovations that will provide value added services to further improve the contractors ability to offer state of the art services to project owners.
Trade groups like the Construction Progress Coalition (CPC), Construction Users Round Table (CURT) Smart Contracts and ConsensusDocs standardized contract and bond forms bring a wide range of contractors and project owners together for collaboration on ways to standardize and modernize to increase efficiency
Savings can also be realized with more effective risk management with predicative analytics to mitigate potential subcontract contract or supply chain defaults.
Digital financial reporting and improved risk management can also enable contractors to secure more bank and surety capacity with reduced insurance pricing.
Receives Data From
- Utility
- Authority Having Jurisdiction – Permit data
- Subcontractors
- Subcontractors project software
- Subcontractors surety bond
- Subcontractors insurance
- Subcontractor Monthly Construction Progress Payment
- Solar System Monthly Operating Report
Sends Data To
- Procurement websites - Subcontractor
- Utility
- Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) – Permit data
- Subcontractors
- Subcontractors project software
- Internal accounting and other internal units
- State reporting
- Federal reporting
- Contractors surety
- Contractors insurance Company
Data Sets Utilized
- Permit Data Set – SolarApp option
- Contractor company profile data set
- Construction contract data set
- Project component data set
- Surety bond data set
- Insurance policy
- Monthly Construction Progress Payment - Contractor to project owner
- Monthly Construction Progress Payment - Subcontractor
- Solar System Monthly Operating Report