Procurement Resources

12 July, 2022

Procuring SMEs – Insight into better procurement for SMEs

The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group explored the challenge of procuring SMEs on 11th May 2022. SMEs bring tremendous value and innovation to projects but often struggle to break into larger contracts and frameworks. Two of CE’s members, LHC and Cara EPS shared the industry-leading ways they approach this issue. Download the report: Procuring SMEs – … Continue reading “Procuring SMEs – Insight into better procurement for SMEs”

5 May, 2020

Nuclear Factory Thinking – Procuring for Productivity – Transforming procurement to become the enabler

We are pleased to launch the fourth volume in our series on Nuclear Factory Thinking – Procuring for Productivity – Transforming procurement to become the enabler . Lead author Adam Newbould has worked with an amazing team of co-writers to produce this document that clearly sets out how procurement influences productivity in nuclear projects and … Continue reading “Nuclear Factory Thinking – Procuring for Productivity – Transforming procurement to become the enabler”

8 August, 2016

Delivering built asset operational excellence

Built assets are typically the largest investments made by both public and private sector clients. In the past Constructing Excellence (CE) has made a priority of examining how outcome-value can be locked into the briefing, design, construction and commissioning of buildings and infrastructure. We have now published our report “Delivering built asset operational excellence – Insight … Continue reading “Delivering built asset operational excellence”

8 July, 2016

The Payments Minefield – A review of payment practices within the UK Construction industry

The construction industry has a history of delayed payment and late payment. The way in which the industry has evolved over a number of decades so that prime contractors sub-contract the majority of their work, the highly fragmented nature of the industry and the disproportionately small size of many of the market participants means that … Continue reading “The Payments Minefield – A review of payment practices within the UK Construction industry”

30 June, 2016

The Payments Minefield – A review of payment practices within the UK Construction industry

The construction industry has a history of delayed payment and late payment. The way in which the industry has evolved over a number of decades so that prime contractors sub-contract the majority of their work, the highly fragmented nature of the industry and the disproportionately small size of many of the market participants means that … Continue reading “The Payments Minefield – A review of payment practices within the UK Construction industry”

30 June, 2015

Outcome led procurement – A common sense approach to construction procurement

This guide has been produced by Constructing Excellence South West’s Procurement Forum led by their drafting team of Martin Howe of Keystone Law, Robert Knight of igloo Regeneration, Stewart Pitteway of Capita, Ian Dacre of Rider Levitt Bucknell, and Martyn Jones of CESW. CESW Outcome Led Procurement June 2015

21 December, 2012

Principles to underpin infrastructure funding and finance

This short paper was produced by a task group of our national membership, which ranges from public and private sector clients of the construction industry to contractors, consultants and suppliers in the buildings and infrastructure markets. It formed part of our submission to the UK government’s 2011-12 consultation on the future of PFI. CE principles … Continue reading “Principles to underpin infrastructure funding and finance”