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

Appendices to Thesis Keith Gale 2013Q6 In your view, what are the drivers that encourage suppliers to start on time?I would say in order to show good performance and maintain their status on theframework to secure more work in the future, generally this creates drivers to start ontime.Q7 In your view, what are the drivers that encourage suppliers to finish on time?I would say largely the financial implications of not finishing on time and err thiswill be covered with a poor performance record and a sort of breakdown inrelationships which are you know, effective relationships.Do you think that would cause a poorer relationship then.. between the parties?Umm I think if it continued. A one off situations not necessarily a problem and I’msure it could be sorted out but if a contractor is consistently late finishing and there’sno good reason for it then that would most certainly effect their performance in thefuture.Q8 In your view, what can be done to encourage suppliers to start and finish ontime?Umm the KPI’s probably have quite a bearing on that, the incentives to kind of keepthem up to scratch. Um, I’m not sure about this but perhaps some financial incentivescould be provided? But I don’t really know about that. And also, I think its probablyimportant that the provider continues the flow of work through the frameworkpractice to encourage them to want to work for them and to stay with it and for themto know that there’s a work stream available.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?436