TENDER PROCESS AND PRE-CONTRACT SERVICES

The tender process is essentially the stage when a package of the design information is presented to builders / contractors for them to give you, the client, a price and time scale in which to carry out the works.

By this stage it is likely that we will have obtained Planning Permission and Building Regulation consent for your project  together with any other necessary statutory approvals. Together with considerable input from you, we will develop the drawings further to show services, finishes etc. and normally window, door and finishes schedules are produced.

Depending on the scale of the your project, we will describe the scope of the works in detail in either a specification / schedule of works or a bill of quantities; the later being aimed at larger and more complex projects. You will have a significant input at this stage in terms of finishes, service positions, colours etc. Indeed the more information that can be provided at this stage will allow the company pricing the works to submit a more accurate tender price.

We will agree with you which contractors will be invited to tender and, when we are not familiar with contractions, we will have obtained references and inspected examples of similar projects that they have worked in advance (where necessary).

The tender package will also include a standard form of building contract to be used and we will have discussed the forms of contract with you.

During the tender period we will answer any questions that the contractors may have and the contractors will be strongly advised to visit the site with us in attendance.

The contractors will submit their tender within three to four weeks and we will prepare a details tender report analysis. Normally the report will conclude that one of the tenders can be accepted and the contractor appointed.

We will prepare contract documents for signing by you and the appointed contractor.

We will attend the pre-contract meeting with you and your contractor.

The next stage in the process is CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION / POST CONTRACT and you can follow this link for further information.

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