…. is a highly complex process that to be BSA compliant, requires the key decisions that most influence project outcome to be made at the outset, by the Client Team

The BSA makes Clients legally responsible for appointing only demonstrably competent parties with clear roles and responsibilities – see our SKEB for demonstrable competency and our Form of Contract for clear roles and responsibilities.

Thereafter, procuring the Contractor is best made through the wide range of market-leading frameworks that allow Client Teams to make careful selection and appointment using a direct pre-tendered route to access their turnkey design build envelope service to assure positive outcomes and BSA 2022 compliance. This ensures quality-based Client Team ‘selection’ based on empirical evidence of demonstrable competency, that delivers fully-compliant building envelopes efficiently with minimal risk, minimal disruption and assured project outcomes with best value.

Traditional Tendered Procurement

Alternatively, procurement can be made through traditional tendering routes, but care must be taken to ensure enquiry documents are non-prescriptive, consisting of only high-level project aspirations to avoid the ambiguity that otherwise accompanies hybrid forms of contract (see form of contract). Note: designs and/or materials can be provided to the tenderer for information only.

The enquiry document then forms the basic Employer Requirements (ERs) inviting tenderers to submit their detailed Contractor Proposals (CPs) on a pure design build basis to showcase their competency with detailed price, programme, design proposals, materials, RAMs and warranties to facilitate careful client team assessment.

But care must be taken to ensure ‘demonstrable competency’ is fully and carefully weight assessed, ideally with pass/fail criteria, as this is key to informed decision making that must be based on empirical evidence of performance as opposed to predicted or asserted performance (see our SKEB).

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Traditional Procurement

Alternatively, procurement can be made through traditional routes ie non-prescriptive invitations to tender on a design and build basis where we submit detailed contractor proposals, complete with price, warranties and past project references to assist and inform client award decisions based on track record. 

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