Services
Sentinel provides general construction services, focusing on the effective and efficient management of multiple delivery order construction contracting (JOC, SABER, IDIQ, TOC and MACC contracts) and design-build. The Sentinel team has over 20 years of construction and government contracting experience.

Delivery orders have ranged from $4,600 to $2,500,000, many starting with only a conceptual design. Contract ceilings range from $5M to $35M a year. Sentinel can respond quickly to satisfy the Government’s requirements because as an ANC 8(a) firm it can receive sole source contracts of unlimited dollar amount.

The JOC/SABER/IDIQ Benefits
We use the Job Order Contracting (JOC) process, a cost and time efficient system geared towards owners with long term construction projects. JOC is also referred to by the Air Force as SABER (Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements). Our JOC management system also supports IDIQ, TOC, MACC and other multiple delivery order type contracts.
Instead of awarding multiple projects to a variety of contractors over time, Job Order Contracting allows the owner to hire one contractor to supervise the projects, resulting in a reduction in the engineering, design, and contract procurement phases. The long-term nature of the contracts provide an opportunity for better communication, resulting in better job scopes and thus better pricing and better execution.

JOC defines a pre-set group of parameters that can result in unprecedented efficiencies and productivity. JOC usually eliminates or minimizes increased costs associated with defining the scope of work since the parameters have already been established. JOC promotes an integrated development of job scopes that help insure that objectives and schedules are fully identified and met. In other cases, the owner simply provides us with job specifications and work can begin. Orders can be processed in one day. We review the budget and price is
established by consulting the price book. The contract eliminates potential conflict over price and timeline.

IDIQ contracts generally permit a wider range of delivery orders, up to $5 million in some cases, allowing the Government to respond quickly to unanticipated needs such as increased security after September 11, 2001, base housing needs and other priority projects. The design-build component allows work to begin even as the design is being completed.

Demonstrated Success
Sentinel’s construction projects have included building a medical clinic, renovating schools, multi-million dollar mechanical improvements and other complex projects. Sentinel’s projects also have included many types of maintenance and repair projects. JOC work may include, for example, carpentry, mechanical concrete, electrical, demolition, and asbestos abatement work.

Sentinel increasingly receives work only defined by a conceptual design. Sentinel works with its design team to develop the design meeting the Government’s objectives, and then building to the approved design. Sentinel’s different projects have included everything from sheet piling to minor roof repairs to multi-million dollar retrofits. They can be as small as or as large as the owner needs, though most tend to range from $50,000 to $750,000.

The scope of a JOC contract may be limited to a single building or it may encompass an airport, an entire university campus, or a military base. It may even extend across multiple states, such as the three-state, eight-site JOC program Sentinel operates for the Navy, or the similar multi-state construction, design-build and quick response program that Sentinel participates in with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.