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Owners Requiring Contractors to Use Their PMIS
OWNERS
CONTRACTORS
Always
More Than Half of Projects
Half or Fewer Projects
Never
FREQUENCY WITH WHICH OWNERS
REQUIRE USE OF THEIR PMIS
Owners who have a PMIS system get enough value from its use that
over two thirds (69%) require that contractors use their systems. For
contractors, having an owner require use of the owner's PMIS is quite
common, with 90% reporting that they experience this. Therefore, any
challenges created by having to use the owner's PMIS system, including
lost productivity and inaccuracies resulting from double entries, are
impacting most contractors to at least some degree.
Owners who require use of their system tend to do so frequently, with
52% expecting contractors to use it on more than half of their projects.
Even though only 36% of contractors currently report that they are
required to use an owner's PMIS with that level of frequency, they are
likely to have to do so more frequently in the future, as more owners
adopt these systems.
Frequency of Owners Requiring Use of a PMIS System
According to owners and contractors
Once contractors realize they can see where their RFIs are
sitting and who is holding them up, they become fans—and they
absolutely become fans of how quickly they get paid... . When one of our
contractors puts in an application, it will go through the architect, the
PM, through me, into the financial system, and they'll get paid pretty
much in 10 days.
—Dennis Clausen
DIRECTOR OF SUPPORT SERVICES, INOVA
17%
31%
19%
33%
54%
10%
8%
28%
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