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Health & Safety A new challenge for procurement   The Sentencing Council (who in procurement has heard of them?) issued new definitive guidelines in regard to health and safety offences. The legislation came into force on 1st February 2016 and introduced new, significantly larger fines for health and safety offences. The guidelines cover the following […]

Construction Manager at Risk – Part 3   Parts 1 and 2 of this briefing not have triggered a lot of interest. We have had queries about the nature and content of the contractual agreement. We always advise our clients to pay special attention to definitions. For example on the New Orleans airport project, there […]

Construction Manager at Risk – Part 2   There is always learning when studying requests for proposals (RFP). The construction manager at risk service detail can be found, as an example, in the city of New Orleans RFP 8910-01660. This is in respect of work at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. The buyer for […]

Construction Manager at Risk – Part 1 What is it? It is an approach to construction management, very much under the radar in the United Kingdom. A definition is “A project specific delivery method for large capital construction projects.” The cm-at-risk provides technical assistance during the design phase and has a cost-capped feature. The cm-at-risk […]

It’s about time someone had a clinical review of contracts regarding procurement. The hallmarks of a quality procurement contribution to their business are that i) procurement knows that contracts exist and ii) they know the detail of the contracts and risk exposure within them. We have a close business contact who works for a luxury […]

When, Thomas Roughley our latest Work Experience Graduate showed an interest undertaking some background reading as he started his placement, we gave him one of Dr. Farrington’s books to read! We think he was a little surprised with the Chinese Edition, as he was with another version in Russian.  However we are not all bad. […]

We have spent many hours negotiating with suppliers the terms ‘Reasonable Endeavours’ and ‘Best Endeavours’. The general positioning of most suppliers is that they have a ‘policy’ that prevents them from accepting ‘Best Endeavours’. Our readers will, we believe, welcome some guidance in this specialised area of contract law. In the case of EDI Central […]