Goal 3

To implement procurement procedures that encourage health and safety performance, in particular for smaller projects.

(Lead organisation: LGMSB)

 

Overall Aim of Working Group To develop an agreed set of procurement procedures that will encourage health and safety performance in companies tendering for public works contracts, especially smaller projects.

Objectives

  1. Establish a working group under the lead of the LGMSB to deliver upon the outputs/ objectives agreed.
  2. Agree terms of reference for the working group with group members.
  3. Review existing documentation relating to procurement procedures and guidelines with a view to determining and assessing current practice for ensuring compliance and health and safety performance as part of tender submission process.
  4. Agree common definitions of what constitutes 'small' and 'large' contracts.
  5. Devise and agree a set of guidelines on how compliance and health and safety performance can be incorporated into contracts of varying monetary values.
  6. Devise wordings for how the compliance levels and track record of health and safety performance for specific contractors can be determined through pre-qualification questionnaires.
  7. Provide guidance to awarding bodies on how best to credit performance in health and safety as part of the process for evaluating estimates and tender submissions.

Expected Outputs

  • Set of health and safety performance questions for inclusion in pre-qualification questionnaires.
  • Guidance notes on how past, present and future health and safety performance can be explored through pre-qualification questionnaires and how best to include this performance as part of the overall evaluation of estimates and tender submissions.

 

Action No Description Responsibility Year Status
1 Establish working Group under the LGMSB LGMSB 2008 In Progress
2 Agree terms of reference for the working group. LGMSB / Working Group 2008 In Progress
3 Review existing documentation relating to procurement procedures and guidelines. Working Group 2008 In Progress
4 Agree common definitions and terms to be applied. Working Group 2008 In Progress
5 Devise and agree the first draft of the set of guidelines on how compliance and health and safety performance can be incorporated into contracts of varying monetary values. Working Group 2009 In Progress
6 Produce first draft of question bank and marking schemes that could be used in pre-qualification and tender submission questionnaires. Working Group 2009 In Progress
7 Produce final draft of guidelines, questions and marking schemes and present to Construction Safety Partnership. Working Group 2009 In Progress