Benefits for the Council
- Tender once = less time to go through multiple tenders for the same type of work
- Only deals with one contractor and builds a better relationship with him, therefore able to sort things out with less conflict
- Encourage local workers to be employed à creating more local job opportunities instead of the contractor bringing their own staff.
Benefits for the Contractor
- Work efficiency – if they’ve done it once, they could repeat the work faster and to the same standards
- Expertise of the same quality applied to every new job within the framework.
General benefits
- Improved certainty in terms of time, quality and cost
- Continuous improvement in a transparent collaborative environment
- An attractive and user friendly procurement solution over the lifetime of the framework
- A solid platform for SME and supplier engagement through supply chain management approaches
- A solid platform for local training and employment programmes
- A firm foundation for sustainability initiatives including local regeneration
- Development through the framework of an intelligent cost database offering improved visibility of outturn cost
- Standardised procurement process and technical specifications
- Training for client member authorities in best practice collaborative client techniques.
