Successful construction is often attributed to one or more aspects of the delivery process from good planning, design and clever engineering to efficient project management and quality construction. Before any of these disciplines can begin, they all require some form of procurement to select the team or supply chain to meet a client’s or a project’s specific requirements. The concept of PSE - Purchase and Supplier Engineering - originated in the procurement of the construction and infrastructure required to stage the 30th Olympiad in London during 2012. At the time of writing PSE has successfully delivered almost £25bn of public procurement meeting client and project requirements and without legal challenge.
The construction of the venues and infrastructure needed to stage London 2012 was such a resounding success that it boosted not only the reputation of the UK construction industry but also the confidence of the UK population in the country’s ability to organise, build and run a major international event. Its success has been lauded as something from which clients and industry could learn. The ODA has established a comprehensive and informative body of evidence as part of a Learning Legacy. While the ODA is well aware of the many elements of the procurement and supply chain management, the complete end to end concept of how the Olympic supply chain procurements were managed has until now not been captured.
For example, how does one buy the stage for an Olympic Games? How does one manage the details of thousands of contracts and the many firms of contractors, subcontractors and material suppliers and ensure that no one organisation adversely affects any other to the detriment of the programme? How are a client’s requirements beyond those of the capital asset realised as part of the investment? How does one measure programme exposure, or manage performance? How does one measure capacity and the ability of firms to cope with the work and manage the risks involved?
Programme Procurement in Construction: Learning from London 2012 covers the planning and preparation of a programme’s procurement processes from understanding and developing the client’s requirements, to monitoring performance based on the benchmarks contractors set out in their own tender submissions. The emphasis is on a close attention to detail to avoid surprises, while keeping a focus on the total programme. Purchase and Supplier Engineering provides an overview of managing the interest of firms in participating and the resulting capacity and workloads of all suppliers, including the main contractors and the critical subcontractors and material suppliers.
Offering techniques, tips and lessons learnt from the implementation of PSE on London 2012 and Crossrail, this book is aimed at public and private sector clients, developers, senior management and those businesses and professionals involved in undertaking the procurement, supply chain management and delivery of multiple construction projects or complex major construction programmes.
Contents
1. Purchase and Supplier Engineering and the London 2012 Olympics
- Introduction
- The concept of Purchase and Supplier Engineering
- Programme organisation – an Olympic case study
- Procurement organisation structure – the Olympic Delivery Authority
- Roles and responsibilities
- Projects and programmes
- Concluding remarks
- Reference
Chapter 2. A framework for understanding markets in construction
- Introduction
- Managing the supply market
- The client and construction
- Projects, programmes and construction dynamics
- The client and the supply chain
- Defining the supply chain
- Outsourcing and subcontracting
- Understanding and managing conflict in construction
- Concluding remarks
- References
Chapter 3. The client’s values and the balanced scorecard
- Introduction
- Developing a framework for measuring performance
- All from a project vision
- Performance measurement
- Using balanced scorecards to communicate values and measure performance
- Developing a balanced scorecard
- Measures including key performance indicators
- Construction KPI measures of economic sustainability
- Social sustainability: Respect for people KPI measures
- Environmental sustainability: Environmental KPI measures
- Creating appropriate KPIs from a project vision and scorecard
- Concluding remarks
- References
Chapter 4. Packaging and contracting strategies
- Introduction
- What, why and how to buy
- Packaging strategy
- Gestalt theory
- Programme clusters
- Programme application
- Contracting strategy
- Forms of contract used in the 2012 Olympics procurement
- Classification of contracts
- Concluding remarks
- References
Chapter 5. Common component and commodity strategies
- Introduction
- The benefits of a common component strategy
- Factors influencing the procurement of common components
- Market leverage
- Supply chain security
- Future maintenance and operations
- Design efficiencies
- Developing a common component strategy
- Stage 1: Performance criteria
- Stage 2: Assessment of benefits of implementing a common component strategy
- Stage 3: The benefits of a common component purchasing strategy
- The common component procurement strategy
- Concluding remarks
- References
Chapter 6. Engaging with suppliers: How to attract suppliers and increase interest and awareness
- Introduction
- Gathering market intelligence
- Supplier dialogue
- One-way supplier dialogue – Supply chain events
- One-way supplier dialogue – Industry days
- One way supplier dialogue – One-to-one meetings
- One-way supplier dialogue – Meet the buyer events
- One-way supplier dialogue – Meet the contractor events
- One-way supplier dialogue – Supplier guide
- One-way supplier dialogue – Business opportunities website
- One-way supplier dialogue – Opportunity slides
- Two-way supplier dialogue – Supplier registration and pre-assessment questionnaires
- Two-way supplier dialogue – Market soundings
- Concluding remarks
- Reference
Chapter 7. eSourcing and process codifi cation: Standardising programme procurements
- Introduction
- The guiding principles of a robust procurement process
- Standardising procurement documentation
- Security of the procurement system
- Evaluation of tenders
- The application of electronic tools in the procurement process
- eSourcing
- eEvaluation
- Aspects of managing systematic procurement processes
- Standard processes
- Schools of excellence
- Governance
- Assurance
- Training
- The milestones of procurement reporting
- Standardisation and codification of the procurement process
- Stage gate 1 – Agreeing the procurement strategy
- Stage gate 2 – Tender documentation completion
- Stage gate 3 – Tender list agreement
- Stage gate 4 – The tender report
- Procurement reporting
- Concluding remarks
- References
Chapter 8. Managing supply chain involvement across a programme
- Introduction
- Supplier relationship management
- Remaining in contact with all firms who tender for work
- Supply chain mapping
- Concluding remarks
- Reference
Chapter 9. Due diligence and the management of capacity
- Introduction
- Modelling supplier utilisation
- Monitoring the financial strength of suppliers
- Sub-tier supplier engineering
- Identifying critical suppliers
- Concluding remarks
- References
Chapter 10. Performance management
- Introduction
- The Purchase and Supplier Engineering model and programme management
- Purchase and Supplier Engineering and the programme management office
- Performance management within Purchase and Supplier Engineering
- Analysis
- Control
- Performance improvement through Purchase and Supplier Engineering
- Benchmarking
- Concluding remarks
- Index
Book Details
- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (©2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470674733
- ISBN-13: 978-0470674734
- Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 6.6 x 9.2 inches
- List price: $75.00