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

Appendices to Thesis Keith Gale 2013the things is we compete against smaller organisations. So I think actually we carry agreater overhead and I think that has to have come from somewhere. So I think wemight be at a bit of a disadvantage there. But what I also think when I look atframework one jobs. Even the ones we do, we don’t, and I mean I think financially,they’re hard to play. And I think it’s the level of supervision we put into our workand, you know, we tend to make sure there’s always a supervisor there to ensure thatwe’ve got the right level of quality there and I think possibly, that must make adifference between us because at the end of the day the materials all cost the same,the labour rates, well they might vary a bit but they wont be hugely different, um, soI think whether or not you bind with that, the issues in framework one or not is areally interesting question to me but in some ways I would say that participation in aframework would certainly in the round sense encourages quality.Q12 In your opinion, which procurement method encourages longer termrelationships between parties to a construction project? Why do you think this is?Yeah, I mean a framework, in itself, is a long term relationship. I mean, a frameworkis four years and err when you participate in a framework that by its very nature is along term relationship. Conversely, if you go back to traditional procurement thatmay or may not achieve the same relationship depending upon how traditionalprocurement was actually achieved. In other words, if you achieve err if atraditionally public model is worked on to select list, and the way in whichcontractors were given opportunity to tender varies between different authorities.Other authorities have a different selection process and they would select contractorson the basis of which contractors they thought were most appropriate to do whateverthat works is. At the end of the day, there was a number of authorities which we wereparticipants in the tender process and as a consequence we got a reasonablecontinuity of work and in that respect I would say ultimately that we had a long termrelationship with Hampshire County Council before the framework. I think as I’vesaid in relation to the previous question, our relationship with Hampshire CountyCouncil is a closer one now because of the framework, err, but a long relationshipwas there previously. Now and again the provisions of a relationship… I meanrelationships are about people. Its not so much about the relationship between..sorry.. it isn’t about the relationship between Hampshire County Council and my371