APC Q&A

APC Q&A

1. what documents would you include in a tender Doc?

   • http://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/tender_documentation_for_construction_projects
   • Specification & drawings
   • Form of tender
   • contact details
   • programme
   • return date
   • pricing document
   • codes of conduct for tendering
   • contents list
   • surveys and results
   • project background

2. what constitutes a set of contract documents under D&B ?

   • http://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/contract_documents_for_construction
   • Employers requirements
   • project scope
     • schedule of work
   • client brief
   • type of contract
   • contract amendments
   • conditions of contract
   • pricing document
   • specification

3. What documents would you include to safeguard clients interests?

   • insruances
   • bonds
     • performance
     • retention
   • collateral warranties
     • what are collateral warranties?
       • contract between third parties
       • standard transfer of risk
       • client - main contractor - sub-contractor
   • public liability
   • employers liability

4. what amendments would you advise your client to make to a contract for a standard form and why?

   • to ensure both parties have their interests covered
   • retention
   • insurance particulars
   • contract particulars for the project

5. What is the difference between fitness for purpose and reasonable skill and care?

   • FFP (FITTNESS FOR PURPOSE)
     • implied into construction contracts
       • Within a D&B contract stating the product will suit the purpose for the client needs
     • does the product do what is asked of it
   • RSC (REASONABLE SKILL AND CARE)
     • implied into professional services contracts
     • Bollum Test
     • a professional designer will have a duty to act with reasonable skill and care

6. What is a RICS Guidance note?

   • a document that represents best practice
   • documents that provide users with recommendation towards reasonable skill and care
     • why are they important?
       • protect against an allegations of negligence
         • a member conforming to a guidance note shows works towards reasonable skill and care for best practice

7. what are minimal requirements from a QS with tendering

   • take initial brief from employer to understand requirements
   • choose suitable tendering statergy
   • produce and issue invites to tender in appropriate manner
   • deal with tender queries and answer them in timely manner
   • analysis tenders- collate queries from design team
   • produce tender report with recommendations of preferred contractor

8. What is procurement?

   • Overall act of obtaining good and services from an external source
   • Time
     • programme, key dates, time line, critical path
   • cost
     • budget, value engineering, added value
   • quality
     • performance, FFP, risks
   • Traditional
   • Design and build
   • Construction Management
   • Management Contracting

9. What is tendering?

   • the bidding process to obtain a price
   • how the contractor is appointed
   • Single stage tendering
     • most common type where competing contractors all given chance to bid on identical tender docs
   • Two Stage tendering
     • enables design and tendering to be overlapped
     • contractor can input to the technical design
     • used for early appointment of the contractor
     • tendered on prelims, OH&P, reputation, design and relevant experiance
     • RIBA stage 2 or 3

10. What is meant by time at large

    • no date fixed by the contract for completion
    • contractor is required to complete the work in a reasonable time
    • no provision for EOT in contract when employer has caused delay

11. what is force majeure

    • where act of god, strikes and breakdowns amount to force majeure
    • in absence of definition in contract, there is no formal meaning