Framework for a national register for consultants: 9 (Construction Industry Board) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 072772553X ISBN 13: 9780727725530

Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

This report studies the issues relating to the creation of a single register of consultants seeking public sector work, and the appropriate requirements for entry on to the register. The working group for this guide was chaired by Geoff Wright from the Construction Clients Forum. In Constructing the Team, Sir Michael Latham argued that qualification to approved lists needs to be rationalised in the UK as the costs to firms (and clients) are too high.

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Synopsis

This report studies the issues relating to the creation of a single register of consultants seeking public sector work, and the appropriate requirements for entry on to the register. The working group for this guide was chaired by Geoff Wright from the Construction Clients Forum. In "Constructing the Team", Sir Michael Latham argued that qualification to approved lists needs to be rationalised in the UK as the costs to firms (and clients) are too high. He proposed a single qualification process and list for consultants seeking public sector work, based on the Department of the Environment's (DOE's) register of consultants, ConReg, and recommended that the wider public sector be encouraged to use it along with central government departments.CIB's Working Group 4 was established to assess in detail the adequacy of ConReg for this task and to make recommendations on how to improve the system and its administration to best serve the interests of its users and those registered on the system. This report makes 23 main recommendations.

It recommends improvements in the assessment of: the financial viability of consultants, financial notations, managerial and technical competence, specialisms and disciplines, health and safety and racial equality. It highlights the need for annual review of financial information, a probation scheme for new entrants to the register, and the value of performance reports to users.Other recommendations relate to the administration of the system, its expansion to the wider public sector and eventually to private sector clients, and its designation as an EU 'official list. As Working Group 4 and Working Group 5 (on ConRegs sister, the Contractor Management Information System, CMIS1) neared the end of their deliberations, the DOE commissioned consultants to review whether the system offers value for money and options for its future organisational structure, and to develop viable charging strategies. The DOE has now established an advisory group o clients and users of the system, together with other industry representatives, to steer the implementation of these recommendations, and it is anticipated that the new version of ConReg will be on-line in the spring of 1997.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 072772553X
• ISBN 13: 9780727725530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 35