Assessment of a Hotline Complaint: PBS Southeast Sunbelt Region Job Order Construction Contracts

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify PBS of deficiencies in the pricing for the PBS Southeast Sunbelt Region’s (PBS Region 4’s) Job Order Construction (JOC) contracts. Specifically, we found that deficiencies in PBS Region 4’s price analyses resulted in JOC contracts with either inflated or unsustainably low pricing. Flawed JOC contract pricing was also inappropriately used as the basis for project cost estimates.