All Features articles – Page 548
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Transport for London
Procurement policyIn terms of roads construction, London is split into five areas managed by three stewards – WSP and Parkman each manage two areas, and the London Borough of Camden manages one. Routine work in these five areas has been let under five-year term contracts, which run to 2007. The ...
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Land Securities
Procurement policyLand Securities works with a number of consultants, main contractors and subcontractors. Selection is dependent upon the size, value, complexity and location of the scheme. Over the years, Land Securities has built up a working relationship with several organisations that are employed on a regular basis. The procurement strategy ...
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Kingfisher
Procurement policyKingfisher procures construction work through Chartwell Land, the group's specialist retail property division, or directly as in the case of B&Q. Almost all work is procured by competitive tender.Current and future projectsAs of end of 2001, the restructured Kingfisher Group comprised just B&Q and Comet, the number one in ...
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J Sainsbury
Procurement policySainsbury's Property Company use the design-and-build method of procurement, with the ECC form of contract. Main contractors, which are appointed directly by the company, are responsible for all second-tier suppliers, including design consultants. This creates a single point of contact and gives contractors greater control together with the opportunity ...
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Innogy Holdings
Procurement policyInnogy uses several different procurement routes depending on the project. Large power stations, such as the Staythorpe plant which is currently on hold, are planned to be let under a turnkey contract. For smaller power projects, the company appoints consultants that let the contract, most likely on a competitive ...
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Her Majesty's Prison Service
Procurement policyPFI is forming a key plank of HM Prison Service's procurement of new prisons. Projects let under the PFI are on a competitive tender basis with a shortlist of suppliers, which are usually a consortium of companies providing bids to meet given output performance specifications. These will cover all ...
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Hammerson
Procurement policyFor large schemes, generally of more than £20m, Hammerson uses a two-stage bidding process. It will invite a few major contractors to work with its designers to develop the scheme and select one of them based on issues such as preliminary costs and overheads. When the design is 80% ...
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FeaturesHamlet on ice
Sweden already had an ice hotel, so the next logical step was … an ice version of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, of course. Though this be madness, we discovered the method in't.
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Hilton Group
Procurement policyThe Hilton Group's preferred procurement route varies depending on the project. The company has used competitive tendering as well as framework agreements for different schemes.Current and future projectsHilton Group experienced a sharp fall in investment in the year to December 2001. Total capital expenditure fell from almost £500m to ...
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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 ...