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

Appendices to Thesis Keith Gale 2013behaving because again we need to have that continued relationship sort of thing andif we are upsetting one or more of the other ones organisation then we need to bemore proactive with that whole framework than we might potentially be withtraditional methods of contract.Q17 Which method (traditional verses framework) do you think allows financialcontrol of a project to be used most effectively? Why do you feel this is so?Ummm, I think financial control on the project again goes slightly back to makingsure that you’re administering you’re contract correctly… having a frameworkshould enable you to again be more familiar with those forms of contract and knowthat okay… we’re using NEC3 so the whole of that framework has this familiaritywhich means you should be in control of your systems for notifying changes invariation which should make financial control better. Also, if we’re talking aboutforms of contract, you know NEC3 is much more proactive about financial control,or that items should be settled as we go along whereas IC six and seven jobs whichhave approval after we’ve finished but 18 months after we’ve finished and we stillaren’t anywhere near agreeing the final bill, which absolutely makes a mockery offinancial control. I think the flip side of that is that if you were in a frameworkarrangement and you had a project which hasn’t had the finances agreed and youwere 18 months past completion, then that would have serious implications for yourability to deliver on a framework because it would have probably seriousimplications for your reputation on that framework. So I think actually the structureof a framework gives you that element of being able say… “time to financial controlbecause that scheme should be more self contained” and actually your workingrelationships with people mean that yes you might have finished this project here andwe might be a month or two before settling the final accounts, but it might be thatyou’re actually working with a similar project team on the next project. So theproximity of those people should make it easier to finish up the other pieces of work.Whereas we all know its very easy on a traditional form of contract… the actual sitework finishes, you dismantle the offices, you all go back to where you came fromwhether that’s you based in Winchester and the client based out in Newbury orBristol, and then actually having meetings to agree payment and trying to settleaccounts becomes a lot more difficult. So the framework provides those394