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

Appendices to Thesis Keith Gale 2013Q17 Which methods (traditional verses framework) do you think allows financialcontrol of a project to be used most effectively? Why do you feel this is so?I don’t actually really know what you mean by financial control but at the end of theday the first thing is the choice of contract is a big driver in how finances arecontrolled. In other words, if when you mean financial control you mean what theoutcome cost is compared to the budget cost then that will often be down to yourbudget cost. Or do you mean what’s the difference between the outcome cost and thetender cost and whether that’s financially controlled, because from my point of viewthe control of the finances within a job are controlled by whichever contract it is.You know, I mean its paid on a month evaluation, if its option A its paid on thatschedule and umm if its option B then its paid on a bill of quantities. I mean I knowtraditionally option A contracts, the payments a little bit more relaxed about partpayments on activity schedules rather than, you know payment to the actual letter.But that’s common to all our clients. So that, if you like the micro financial controlof a project is the same in terms of a mechanism of doing evaluations and all the restof it. Now in terms of looking at the macro financial control, in other words how tosit against budgets, how to sit against tendered prices, umm I don’t think it probablymakes a great deal of difference because you know at the end of the day if you’regiven a job, say for example you’re given a road and asked to repair a soft spot thenthat road is going to cost you the same whether its done traditionally or whether itsdone from in or out of a framework. I mean, if that question is more sort of aimed at‘claims’, is what you’re saying that that does the framework increase or decrease theclaims consciousness of a supplier? From my own personal point of view… I don’tthink it makes any difference. I mean a lot of claims conscious organisations werethere before and are there now. Whether that’s a case of cost I don’t know becauseobviously I’m not part of that information.Q18 Do you feel that we should continue the use of frameworks In the future whenthe current ones expire in 2012?That’s what the framework format is. There are two frameworks close to my heart.Our office is on the boundary of Dorset and Hampshire. Dorset and Hampshire are375