Public contracting authorities are actually allowed to make use of the Widespread Evaluation Normal (CAS) following a authorities replace to procurement guidelines.
CAS, developed by Construct UK, is an industry-agreed set of 29 questions and corresponding evaluation requirements for the prequalification of suppliers.
A public procurement discover (PPN) issued by the Cupboard Workplace final month now permits public sector purchasers to make use of the CAS, fairly than PAS91, which has been withdrawn.
Ian McKinnon, managing director of accreditation physique CHAS, stated: “The Widespread Evaluation Normal is a serious step ahead for the development {industry}, and we’re excited to be a part of this essential collaborative method to lift requirements and cut back duplication and value within the provide chain.
“CHAS has already helped a whole lot of contractors obtain the certification, and we stay up for working with many extra to finish the method swiftly and effectively.”
The brand new PPN units out how cost approaches will be taken under consideration when procuring main authorities contracts price greater than £5m per 12 months.
The earlier prequalification system led to about 180,000 specialist contractors producing greater than two million items of paper yearly for five,000 contractors, racking up a cumulative value of as much as £1bn, in keeping with Construct UK.
Development Management Council co-chair Mark Reynolds stated the extension of the CAS to the general public sector was a “actual and sensible manner of decreasing paperwork and enhancing high quality within the {industry}, and it has come at simply the appropriate time”.
Corporations which have the CAS are licensed annually by a Recognised Evaluation Physique.
They’re requested as much as 234 questions protecting 10 key {industry} areas to correctly assess an organization’s competence, whether or not personal or public.
These questions are structured into three components:
- Half 1 covers fundamental details about the potential provider, together with their contact particulars, skilled physique memberships, particulars of father or mother firms and group bidding.
- Half 2 constitutes self-declarations of whether or not or not any of the exclusion grounds apply.
- Half 3 asks for proof and self-declarations of financial and monetary standing, and referring to technical {and professional} potential.
Companies and our bodies already utilizing the Widespread Evaluation Normal embrace:
- ASUC
- Balfour Beatty
- BCSA
- BESA
- Bouygues UK
- Canary Wharf Contractors
- Clancy Group
- Costain
- Derwent London
- HAE
- HS2
- IPAF
- ISG
- Keltbray
- Kier
- Lipton Rogers
- Mace
- McCarthy Stone
- Multiplex
- Novus Property Options
- Osborne
- Scape
- Sir Robert McAlpine
- Sisk
- Skanska
- Tilbury Douglas
- Vinci Development UK
- VolkerWessels UK
- Wates
