Procurement

4 February, 2016

Bid Cost Survey Blog 2 – Improving the win rate

When in 2014 MarketingWorks, in association with Professor Will Hughes of the University of Reading, updated their 2003 research assessing how the bid cost investment affects work winning within the construction industry, we found that  differing behaviours and approaches influenced whether a company wins or loses the bid. So, as different behaviours may result in … Continue reading “Bid Cost Survey Blog 2 – Improving the win rate”

17 December, 2015

Latest Cabinet Office new models of procurement trial projects case studies released

The latest case studies of the new models of procurement being monitored by Constructing Excellence for the Cabinet Office have been released today. The projects featured are Project Horizon, New Prison North Wales and the Connect Plus Sustainable Business Culture Model which feature the Two-Stage Open–Book approach, Anchor Property which features Cost-Led Procurement, and Dudley … Continue reading “Latest Cabinet Office new models of procurement trial projects case studies released”

10 December, 2015

New CE Social Value theme group

How do clients take social value into consideration during procurement and planning ? What are the best and worst practices of implementing and achieving social value? How can the industry as a whole best promote the social impact of the built environment? Renew, in partnership with Constructing Excellence Yorkshire and the Humber, are leading on … Continue reading “New CE Social Value theme group”

8 December, 2015

Procurement: Prepare for the best

Successful procurement depends on the client understanding whether the evaluation methodologies it uses are likely to produce the desired results. Here’s some advice on getting it right. The UK public sector expenditure was more than £735bn in 2014. A significant amount of that money will have been spent via regulated procurements for public contracts, run … Continue reading “Procurement: Prepare for the best”

26 November, 2015

Is profit a dirty word in Construction? (What Latham missed and Egan did not have the answer for)

Both the Latham and Egan reports identified areas where the Construction Industry could make improvements in the way that it worked. Both of these had one eye on the clients’ satisfaction as a driver behind their implementation and the other on bringing better processes and practices into the sector. With varying degrees of success, most … Continue reading “Is profit a dirty word in Construction? (What Latham missed and Egan did not have the answer for)”