Industry Standard PQQ - now there is a good idea!
How many Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQs) do you complete in a year? How many ask the same questions in a slightly different way? How much money do you waste as a result? How much money does the industry waste in a year?
It is widely recognised that excessive pre-qualification activity adds unacceptable cost, bureaucracy and confusion to the construction supply chain. The Civil Engineering Construction Association (CECA) estimate that completing PQQ's costs upto £1Bn a year so the potential for savings are huge.
There have been efforts to address all or part of the problem - Constructionline, Achilles, CHAS to name but a few - but these are pre-qualification services and are used by only a fraction of the clients.
Now the British Standards Institution (BSi) and the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) have produced a draft standard - BSI/PAS 91: Core criteria for pre-qualification in construction tenders - Selection, presentation and application - which is described as a 'publicly available specification that specifies the nature, content and format of a set of questions in respect of the core criteria essential to pre-qualification for construction tendering.'
If it is adopted it will mean the core questions, the ones that get asked every time, will always be asked in the same way in all the services and in clients own PQQs. This will allow tenderers to have a single set of answers to these questions rather than having to recompile them for every tender. Saving money for tenders and therefore saving money for clients.
The questions covered include:
- General Supplier information, Key roles and contact
- Financial information
- Business and professional standing
- Health and safety
- Equal opportunity and diversity
- Environmental management
- Quality Management
The draft of PAS 91 is has now been removed.
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17-Jun-2010
Unfortunately the link does not work. But it does sound like (not just a good) but indeed an excellent idea!
Can you please check out the link.
21-Jun-2010
The consultation period is now closed and the draft is therefore no longer viewable on the BSi website