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

Appendices to Thesis Keith Gale 2013I think ‘right first time’ is to do with quality of information. And that’scommunication, clarity of information that’s available, clarity of information that’snot available. The clarity of process, of specification, of requirements… and errthat’s quite key I think. But the bottom line is where you start as you mean to go onalmost. Like with the drivers, they encourage projects through the quickcommunication and inclusive behaviour. I think that inclusive behaviour is to do withinvolvement. These elements might on the face of it seem unrelated. Or why wouldyou want to have a contractor involved in this discussion? But once you perceivebenefits and again you can perceive the value of the event of that conversation. Thatagain will obviously have a respecting of any input into achieving right first time.Again the long term relationships and communication are important in this. A simplefew sentences by a contractor expressing a different viewpoint can totally change theapproach. So yes, communication is probably the biggest as far as I can see. I don’tthink there’s anything else.Q12 In your opinion, which procurement method encourages longer termrelationships between parties to a construction project? Why do you think this is?Err, I think there’s a key difference between frame working and traditional. Theframework has a definite encouragement towards longer term relationships just bythe fact that they are a longer term contractual relationship. I think, and err clearlyagain the traditional ones use shorter relationships because there is no connectionbetween each project. So err, I think the new challenge of parties actually stretchesbeyond that of a framework because at the end of the day you could have arelationship for the duration of your contract as well. These challenges will extendbeyond the contractual relationship because they include additional elements beyondthe contract such as site welfare. And I actually think, you know, it’s a no brainer.You’ve got a four year framework of course you’re going to have a longer termrelationship because there is time to understand each other. You can sometimes feellike that relationship is a ball and chain rather than a benefit. So I think yeah, theframework and the length of it determines the relationship, but the challenge is anextension of the current arrangement to encourage performance. So I don’t know ifthat’s through the procurement method, I guess so because frameworks are verydifferent from individual contracts.381