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

Appendices to Thesis Keith Gale 2013are involved and if the main contractor slows down then that has a knock on effect toothers. So we tell them the program…. the specialists program and that helps them toproduce things on time. Otherwise we’ll get the suppliers penalised by usingliquidated damages and the use of the KPI’s. So by giving them the key dates and areasking the suppliers to done a daily program now. So… this person will come and dothat, and this person will organise that, and… giving them who does what on a dailybasis, that helps to get these things done on time. Explaining the importance of theseissues helps encourage suppliers.Q8 In your view, what can be done to encourage suppliers to start and finish ontime?Again, we will do the full discussion about this and then we usually give them ourinvolvement with the public because contractors don’t normally, err they have noother involvement. We control the contract because the local counsellors require it,the public require it, we do the main drop and we keep people informed. Suppliersare part of that chain and we detail to them these important things we should meetbecause of the required dates and by sharing our problems with them and ourrestrictions with them, they also get more involved and then this gives them somesort of encouragement to become involved in our process. So that helps. Just keepingthem informed. And we do that again and again through contract meetings anddiscussions. There are so many people involved, for example we have got this worksnotice system, and the area of people involved, so once we have given them a datethen we have to go by the date, otherwise there is the added stress. By highlighting aproblem, and by keeping people informed we can encourage them to deliver.. or tostart and finish on time. And if there is any delay anticipated, you can get differentpeople to finish it.Q9 In your opinion, do you think that frameworks encourage accurate start andfinish dates more than traditional procurement method? Why do you think that is?Err I think in our documentation we actually state and anticipated start date. So thatgoverns them, to at least commit to that date and err if there’s a problem with thatdate and its highlighted it will come to us saying you know…‘there’s another project398