Everything procurement asks
The commercial and contractual answers a main contractor needs, in one place, rather than three days into an email thread.
Who you are contracting with
Who carries the design liability?
The person who writes the schedule. Under CDM 2015 that makes them a designer, which is why professional indemnity, not public liability, is the first insurance line a careful buyer should read on any ironmonger.
Who does the schedulingHow do I pre-qualify you?
Send us your standard PQQ and we will complete it and return it. Insurances, terms and our position on your subcontract order come back in your own format, not ours.
Ask us to complete your PQQ
Delivered to the programme
A 400 door package that lands in week one is 400 doors to store, guard and lose. Send the floor by floor sequence and deliveries follow it.
Can you price against our tender?
Send the specified schedule and you get two columns: priced as drawn, and equal and approved alternatives with the saving named against each. Nothing is substituted without you seeing both numbers.
Send the drawingsThree places a saving comes back as a defect.
Fire and escape hardware, the corrosion grade on anything external, and the accessibility dimensions. An FD30 doorset is only as good as its test evidence.
Send the schedule and your subcontract order.