PhD Final Thesis April 2013.pdf - Anglia Ruskin Research Online

Thesis Keith Gale 2013about that and I’ve touched on that a number of times already I think that theframework delivers good value for money to Hampshire County Council because itretains genuine competition and you know, I’m a great believer in retainingcompetition. I think that’s one of the things that I think sounds odd coming from acontractor, we usually want as little competition as possible. But the reality is at theend of the day, that we always perform very well when we’re in competition becausewe’re a league organisation and therefore I think that competition delivers goodvalue for money which I’m glad to say has become more on the agenda in the lastcouple of years because of this financial circumstance in which we find ourselves…’A Senior Engineer also suggests incentives as motivation for performance:‘…especially if they’re in the public eye with performance data being published, let’ssay that they will stick to something. And as a social benefit its good. It’s a marketingthing to be able to say “look, we finished this ahead of said schedule”. Like with thedrivers, they encourage projects through the quick communication and inclusivebehaviour. I think that inclusive behaviour is to do with involvement. The frameworkhas a definite encouragement towards longer term relationships just by the fact thatthey are a longer term contractual relationship. I think, and clearly again thetraditional ones use shorter relationships because there is no connection betweeneach project. So I think the new challenge of parties actually stretches beyond that ofa framework because at the end of the day you could have a relationship for theduration of your contract as well. These challenges will extend beyond thecontractual relationship because they include additional elements beyond thecontract such as site welfare. The mechanisms in the framework allow, you step outthe back of the project and quickly within a week agree the final account saying okand look away. And to my mind that’s just incredibly efficient. I mean I think that’sespecially impressive with the framework as opposed to the traditional contractsYeah, definitely I think… I mean incentives… I think it improves relationships, betterworking, I think it stands to reason. Suppliers are rewarded with incentives fromperformance and they are benefiting from that.’Incentives and motivation are particularly noted by commercial minded participantssuch as Quantity Surveyors:248