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

Appendices to Thesis Keith Gale 2013know, a bit of extra compaction, a bit of extra working or maybe working on laterovercomes it. Um, yeah. Sometimes, you maybe haven’t got time to test somethingbut you take a chance. You either put it in or do nothing, and doing nothing issometimes worse than just taking the chance. So you can get caught out just becauseand the end of the day you haven’t achieved the result that is necessary.Um, do you think the procurement method helps with that? Or has any effect on it atall? Or…Umm, I don’t think that in any contract anybody would do anything differently interms of trying to get something right first time. But in a framework there might be abetter understanding of what’s acceptable and not acceptable because of betterrelationships, and err you may end up taking joint decisions with clients in which thebest decision is to take a chance. Yeah, I mean you could say that the relationships ina framework might mean that you understand the boundaries better of what’s rightand what’s wrong so you can avoid the limits of the boundaries which is better foreverybody because sometimes being 100%... providing something of 100% qualitymeans having a big factors at stake and you know, that costs money. Hopefully thatmakes sense.Q12 In your opinion, which procurement method encourages longer termrelationships between parties to a construction project? Why do you think this is?The framework does encourage longer term relationships. I mean it stands to reasonreally that people have got more time to understand each other and build up trust andbuild up understanding more than anything.Do you think there’s any difference because sometimes suppliers and clients haveknown each other for a number of years through discrete contracts? And yeah, doyou think there’s any difference working under a framework for that relationship?Umm, its difficult. I mean, in my experience its difficult to answer because wheneverI’ve been involved in something like that its always a different level and then youknow… The relationships that develop at ground level or graduate level are different424