Rethinking the Construction Client — Six Key Guidelines
Following 2001's regional events — The National Debate: Rethinking the Construction Client — a set of guidelines that leading practitioners in the public sector are now pursuing, and which central and local government policies are actively supporting.

The six guidelines are:

• Traditonal processes of selection should be redically changed because they do not lead to best value.
• An integrated team which includes the client should be formed before design and maintained throughout delivery.
• Contracts should lead to mutual benefit for all parties and be based on a target and whole life cost approach.
• Suppliers should be selected by Best Value and not by lowest price; this can be achieved within EC and central government procurement guidelines.
• Performance measurement should be used to underpin continuous improvement within a collaborative working process.
• Culture and processes should be changed so that collaborative, rather than confrontational, working is achieved.

The document can be dowloaded free of charge from www.rethinkingconstruction.org.uk
29/07/02