All Features articles – Page 547
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Rank Group
Procurement policyRank will use competitive tendering for the procurement of nearly all construction services. It does use negotiated contracts for a few schemes, but this will mainly be because it needs the work to be undertaken quickly.Current and future projectsCapital investment in the six months to June 2002 was ...
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FeaturesGreat lengths
Ireland has just splashed out on an extraordinary national swimming complex. Extraordinary partly because no public money will be spent on running it – which meant the designers had to create a unique building that could pay its own way.
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MFI Furniture Group
Procurement policyWork on the new store programme is competitively tendered. An approved list of suppliers is used for the refurbishment programme, with the companies being reviewed on a regular basis. Major refurbishment projects will be tendered with prices based on agreed rates.Current and future projectsMFI has developed a new store ...
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FeaturesFun in the sun
Greenhill Jenner Architects took a deprived nursery school in Northamptonshire, added a sandpit and an Italianate campanile and – hey presto! – it's Calabria meets Palm Beach
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Scottish Executive (trunk roads)
Procurement policyRoad maintenance work was let in 2001 as four operating company contracts. The BEAR Scotland consortium, which comprises Babtie, Ennstone and Ringway, won the two contracts covering the north-east and north-west regions, valued at £215m, and Amey took the two contracts covering the South-east and South-west areas, worth £176m ...
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Slough Estates
Procurement policySlough Estates has its own team of in-house consultants and contractors who carry out about half of its new construction work and all of its refurbishment work. Most projects let to external contractors are done so under the company's progressive design and construction form of contract. This is a ...
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English Partnerships
Procurement policyEnglish Partnerships uses competitive tendering for the purchase of all construction services. For works packages between £25,000 and the EU threshold, currently slightly more than £3.8m, a minimum of three formal competitive tenders will be used. Generally, four or five tenders will be invited. If procurement is via a ...
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Scottish and Southern Energy
Procurement policyThe company uses a mixture of competitive tendering and framework agreements in its procurement of construction services and the choice of which to use will depend on the project or type of equipment being purchased.Current and future projectsScottish and Southern Energy's capital programme fell in 2001/02, due mainly to ...
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Defence Estates
Procurement policyDefence Estates' preferred procurement routes are prime contracting and PFI. Prime contracting entails the supplier taking overall responsibility for the management and delivery of the project to agreed specifications. As well as meeting cost requirements, the prime contractor is responsible for all aspects of the job. In line with ...
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Debenhams
Procurement policyAll work is competitively tendered using a limited number of suppliers. For new-build, some seven contractors are used and store modifications are carried out by nine or 10 contractors. This list of suppliers is reviewed continually.Current and future projectsDebenhams' capital investment programme increased slightly in the financial year to ...
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Dwr Cymru – Welsh Water
Procurement policyWelsh Water has implemented a new procurement policy, using specialist providers for the day-to-day operation of assets and much of the delivery of the capital programme. All contracts are actively managed against key performance indicators. United Utilities won the contract for the day-to-day operation of water and sewerage assets.The ...
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Six Continents
Procurement policySix Continents Retail's procurement of building and M&E services is all through strategic alliances with about 50 contractors.Current and future projectsIn releasing its latest annual results, Six Continents revealed a depressing trading environment. Pre-tax profit fell 24% and turnover 10.5% in the 12 months to September 2002. The group ...
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Manchester City Council
Procurement policyManchester City Council uses five procurement methods, which vary depending on a project's complexity and value. Methods include design-and-build, two-stage tendering, standard JCT forms of contract, construction management contracts and PFI.All projects worth more than £3.5m are advertised in the European Union's Official Journal, and the council will invite ...
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Chelsfield
Procurement policyOn major projects, Chelsfield tends to adopt a two-stage modified JCT contract with an element of competition to establish overhead and profit margins and preliminary costs. Some of the key issues it considers at this stage are the contractors' approach to the project, and their willingness to work in ...
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FeaturesTaming the fat cats
To avoid Enron and WorldCom-style catastrophes, the Higgs report has set out rules intended to keep the portly pusses on company boards in line. But, in an industry used to mucking in and doubling up, will it ever succeed?
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Capital Shopping Centres
Procurement policyThe form of contract used for a Capital Shopping Centre (CSC) project varies depending on the scheme. The company generally uses competitive tender contracts, although it has used design-and-build and fixed price contracts. On a few occasions, including its Braehead project in Glasgow (see below), it has used strategic ...
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Canary Wharf Group
Procurement policyThe east London Canary Wharf development carries out its own construction management, with an in-house team of about 600 people.Most of this work is put out to competitive tender, and the company does have loose partnerships with some companies. It also has a preferred list of suppliers but will ...
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British Energy
Procurement policyAs it is a utility company, British Energy is governed by EU requirements in terms of its procurement processes. It uses the Achilles database to select suppliers, and a prequalification process if more than four are identified.Four companies are usually selected to bid against given specifications. The specifications vary ...
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The British Land Company
Procurement policyThe procurement route used by British Land varies depending on the project and what is most appropriate at the time.Current methods are two-stage tendering with a guaranteed maximum price, construction management and design-and-build. Recently, two major projects have been let under a construction management form of procurement.Current and future ...