To participating contractors
- Enables a company to objectively demonstrate the achievement of a universal set of standards and competencies at the pre-qualification stage.
- Provides a competitive advantage over those companies who cannot demonstrate these same standards.
- Reduces compliance costs associated with existing pre-qualification questionnaires as the CIAPS standards become more widely adopted.
- Relevant to all contractors regardless of their chosen market or markets.
- Creates new business opportunities as the movement towards partnering and integrated supply chains gathers further momentum in the public and private sectors.
- Acts as a business improvement tool to help consolidate best practice principles and achieve greater productivity and profitability.
- Flexible - no obligation to progress to a level that does not suit the company’s commercial needs.
- Incorporates a quality management system for customer management.
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To construction company clients
- Enables principal contractors to quickly establish integrated supply chains based on an objective register.
- Meets the need for objective risk assessment of the companies operating in their supply chains.
- Removes the hassle of verifying in-house sub-contractor lists and thereby reduces related administration costs.
- Immediately identifies contractors with the appropriate standards and competencies required.
- CIAPS provides a common standard which is capable of replacing all existing commercial pre-qualification registers, thereby minimising duplication
- Immediately identifies contractors reaching the appropriate standards and required competencies.
- Provides annual independent audit of a company’s performance, policies and competencies.
- Enables better risk assessment by providing objective confirmation of a company’s practices, policies and competencies.
- Helps to establish integrated supply-chains capable of delivering best value and continuous improvement through performance measurement.
- Can be used to provide an annually validated in-house pre-qualification list and thereby reduces the clients related administration costs.
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