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Construction Commitments Leaflet
Construction Commitments Leaflet
Construction Commitments Leaflet
“Excellent, the course will Being aware of the Commitments will help you submit PQQs (pre-
qualification questionnaires) and tenders that are better aligned with
really push my business the public sector’s guidelines (and therefore more likely to succeed).
forward at a fast pace.”
Tom Billingham, Utilising ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) funding via
T&L Commercial Interiors WMCCE (West Midlands Centre for Constructing Excellence),
finditinsandwell and finditinbirmingham are running a series of
heavily subsidised two-day workshops to help you boost your
tendering skills and meet the new BSI/PAS 91 standard (which is
“I was educated and essential for pre-qualification to construction tendering).
enlightened and, the course,
I feel, will bring value to my The workshop will be useful to you if your company:
own working life as well as to
is a micro, small or medium-sized contractor
the company I work for and manufactures or designs construction products
ultimately will lead to deliver- supplies goods or materials to the building trade
ing superior value to all our designs, or offers professional advice, in the built environment
clients.” is a facilities-management service provider.
Pauraic Sweeney, Forkers
“WMCCE is delighted to support this important initiative
to help West Midlands SMEs in construction prepare for
“Great initiative to encourage
and hopefully win contracts locally and therefore to
local trading and really well
help keep the „West Midlands pound‟ in the region.”
run and helpful course.”
Phil Wilson, chief executive,
Paul Hutchens, Eco2Solar
West Midlands Centre for Constructing Excellence
“Any companies that are
thinking of going on this "What we're trying to do is build a stronger and deeper
training, I can highly relationship between the public and private sector for
recommend it. It's been very mutual benefits.” Jan Britton,
well thought out and over the executive director of urban regeneration,
long run, you can see the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
benefits it will have.”
Paul Banner,
B-Trac Services So what does this training do?
Smaller
companies are now
“A thorough understanding of collaborating to
the Construction Commitments pitch for jobs that
benefits us as a medium-sized were previously too
company but also smaller unwieldy. You could join them, and open your business out to
new and bigger projects.
companies that are here as
well. It means really that we During the training process, you identify all the policies you
can all work together to a high need for PQQs, assessing whether what you have already is
quality and standard, and we're good enough. In turn, this may make the tendering process
all able to provide services to much easier in the future, whatever the job or whichever
sector you’re pitching to.
larger companies and
organisations, and we know Principal contractors (including Interserve, Thomas Vale,
our standards will comply with Skanska and VINCI) are backing the training, using our
their requirements.” directory to source subcontractors and suppliers.
Ron Pinfield,
CLM Construction Ltd
“We‟re happy to say that
Interserve will now count
participation in the Construction
Commitments awareness training
as pre-approval to join our
supply list. That shows how
much we think of the training -
and how we can‟t recommend
enough that you sign up for it.”
Andy Pearson, Associate
Director, Interserve Project
Services
“I‟m delighted to tell you that
we‟re going to use the
findit supply directory to
source our own suppliers. So if you
think you‟d like to work with us,
perhaps on some of the contracts
we‟ve secured in Sandwell, then
it‟s really important that you
sign up to the training.”
Peter Watson,
Managing Director, Forkers
(civil and ground engineering
contractors)
“Very informative course and So don’t miss out: contact Steve or Stuart today.
was a pleasure to attend as I
have furnished myself with far
more knowledge than I
“I feel privileged working with such a broad range of
anticipated – well done to the
companies to successfully attain a common goal of
tutors.” Larry Mazic,
continuous improvement and helping them become more
Zicam Integrated Security
competitive.” Roy Casey, course facilitator,
Success Train