Has the 2016-2020 construction strategy worked?

By Jamie Harris2020-02-07T06:00:00

Have the aims of the current strategy got anywhere near to being realised?

What they never do before they issue yet another strategy is to assess the impact of the current strategy. It is about delivering £1.7bn worth of efficiency in government procurement – has it been realised?”

It is a good question, and one that Rudi Klein, chief executive of the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group, would like someone in Whitehall to answer. That £1.7bn figure he mentions was the efficiency savings the government back in 2016 forecast it could make in the course of the parliament. The vision was for construction’s biggest client to make efficiencies on a huge scale through a series of measures including smarter procurement and better use of technology.

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