BENEFITS 

This certification and data management  service is by far the most comprehensive service of its kind yet established in Construction. It coverers all construction sectors including the professions, allows a company to select the standard that matches its commercial needs and  enables both clients and main contractors to select partners and suppliers by objective assessment. 

For SMEs and sub-contracting companies the benefits of membership are: 

  • the ability to establish, monitor and report on compliance with recognised industry standards without exhaustive management effort or extensive resource;
  • significantly reduce costs by simplifying PQQ preparation and collation of company information into a PAS91 compliant format;
  • validation of their competence to participate in a given supply chain;
  • access to preferential insurance terms from Zurich (UK) Insurance Ltd;
  • the facility to collate and report company KPIs with minimal effort;
  • signposting the more modest SME or micro company to the resources available to improve its basic business, environmental and H&S skills in order to reach the recognised standard; and
  • a marketing tool to differentiate oneself from competitors.

For managing contractors the benefits of using the service are:

  • the means to track or verify its supply chain partners' progress through improvement and risk reduction programmes, as specified by Government agencies (e.g. HSE & EA) or themselves, using information provided by independent third parties;
  • the provision of an elegant supply chain management tool for first tier supply chain partners that enables them to effortlessly monitor and report on their supply chains members;
  • the monitoring of the  financial probity of their supply chain members;
  • significant simplification in the process of PQQ preparation;
  • validation, and reporting to the relevant client, the competence of all their downstream supply chain members;
  • replacement,  or supplementation, of in-house ‘preferred contractor’ lists with an email ‘alert’ facility of deviations by supply chain members;
  • the opportunity to offer its clients to access a real-time database (based on validated risk) of all the subcontracting companies working in their frameworks or profects: 
  • the facility to collating company KPIs to support continuous improvement without extensive management effort or resource;
  • significantly reduces the costs of managing supply chains; and
  • gives the managing contractor a powerful marketing edge over those companies that are unable to readily demonstrate ycompliant with ‘Construction Commitments’.

For clients the benefits of using the service are:

  • As both private and public sector clients need simple, fast and structured access to the company information when preparing frameworks and/or invitations to tender. Registered clients are able to browse, search or download company information and invite responses to specific questions from individuals or groups of companies. The database also allows real-time updating online by companies and certification bodies. Company profiles within the service become 'living PQQs'.
  • The service has the capability to automatically generate reports for clients on supply chain and project KPIs. This fosters continuous improvement in the achievement of pre-ordained criteria throughout the supply chain.

The benefits of certification are not yet widely appreciated in construction. This certification service is the first to use certification in the construction industry that can involve the verfification of policies and practices by an independent audit conducted to the BS EN 45011 standard by  a UKAS-accredited certification body. For more information on this feature of the service, click here.