The Construction Commitments
Procurement and Integration
North East - 21st May 2008
Big issue:
- How do we raise awareness of integration of problems
- Lack of support/understanding
- No coordination
- Fragmented decision making
Good ideas:
- Create a group (consortium) to share
- Do all involved know what will happen if it goes wrong
- Talk more - if you don't grasp mettle who will?
East Midlands - 4th June 2008
Big issue:
- Being forced to buy and deliver on price results in lower quality, service and client satisfaction. How do we get round this?
Good ideas:
- Produce a performance specification to ensure same quality is achieved "level playing field"
- Procurement assessment plan to review quality, health and safety etc, to form part of the tender plan
- Whole life cycle costing argument over initial low cost and high running cost
Yorkshire and the Humber - 16th July 2008
Big issue:
- How do we improve supply co-ordination between different divisions/sectors within the group?
Good ideas:
- Identify and empower 'champion' - Job description
- Leads groupwide steering group
- Motivates
- Encourages
- Promotes buy in
- Measured by results
- SMART
South East - 3rd September 2008
Big issue:
- Early contractor involvement - how can this be achieved without compromising pricing?
Good ideas:
- Open book with framework contractors
- List of appropriate contractors by project type/scale
- Select contractor before sub-contractor packages tendered
- Robust performance measurement
West Midlands - 1st October 2008
Big issue:
- How long drawn out multi-tiered public sector procurement has become, being now a multi million pound business in its own right. How can this be streamlined whilst maintaining public probity.
Good ideas:
- Frameworks to remove duplication of the same information time and time again.
- Standardise Framework Submission Docs
- Corporate Information Database
South West - 5th November
Big issue:
- How do we ensure that "Lowest Price" is not the only deciding factor?
Good ideas:
- Test if they can deliver the goods on time to the right standard
- Framework agreement based on; quality, lifetime costs, cost in use, deliverability etc
North West - 4th December
Big issue:
- How do we achieve best value on time quality and price?
- How do we ensure we select the best partner?
Good ideas:
- Long term partnerships
- Developing relationships
- Budget v project requirements
- Track record
East of England - 25th February
Big issue:
- How do we achieve a van stock replenishment/supplier interface process to ensure material stocks are managed efficiently?
Good ideas:
- The diagnosis must be as near to " right" as possible - how? call centre?
- Manage customer expectations.
- Make sure you are using relevant KPIs that do not encourage the wrong type of behaviour
