Procurement and Skills

Government Construction Strategy – NIEP Alignment:

NIEP is aligning workstream deliverables with the Government Construction Strategy through task group participation as a priority

A number of common themes and issues between the Infrastructure (IUK) and construction task groups (e.g. early contractor involvement, frameworks, performance management, data and cost benchmarking)

NIEP is consulting with colleagues from IUK on framework effectiveness (TG1) and cost benchmarking (TG4) to coordinate respective approaches and ensure current thinking and outputs are shared

As the task groups progress, the NIEP will become a vehicle for sharing best practice through the regions and will help facilitate implementation of GCS deliverables in the wider public sector.

NIEP representation on the six GCS task groups and progress to date is noted below:

No.	GCS Task Group	1. NIEP Representative	2. Aligns with NIEP Workstream	3. Current Progress
1	Procurement / Lean Client	Keith Heard Peter McDermott (CCINW)	Procurement and Skills	Cabinet Office has asked for support from NIEP to investigate effective use of frameworks and other routes to market across the wider public sector. Peter McDermott coordinating data from central government. NIEP has drafted report including success criteria and evidence base, currently with TG1 colleagues for comment, final draft report by 30/11.
			Client Leadership	NIEP Client Leadership guide identifies ten key messages that leadership in local government should address and also provides advice on tackling challenges for local government from dealing with barriers, making the case for change, understanding the issues and planning and delivering an improvement project.
2	Standards / Lean Supply	John Lorimer	Procurement and Skills	P&S workstream is collating a list of existing initiatives. Work by Highways workstream on lean supply chains will be shared with TG2
3	FM / Soft Landings	Patrick Blogg Peter McDermott (CCINW)	Asset Management	NIEP FM Guide shared with colleagues from TG3 for comment
4	Data and Benchmarking	David Corcoran	Procurement and Skills	P&S workstream has agreed a priority to develop national benchmarking dataset to support GCS. NIEP is gathering cost data from regions though a common template, which has been shared with colleagues from UK/ICE Infrastructure Data Sub-Group who are looking at outturn cost and performance and to develop a means to capture post project cost and performance information and improve access to international data, working with the Construction Sector Transparency (CoST) Initiative. The NIEP benchmarking objectives are to: Improve overall framework performance nationally by providing a transparent and consistent evidence baseline Benchmark design fees & performance across multiple frameworks Demonstrate VfM and use data to set targets, opportunities for cost reduction through standardisation, increase market leverage through supply chain
5	BIM Strategy	John Lorimer Keith Heard	Procurement and Skills Client Leadership	Colleagues from BIM are attending P&S workstream meeting 5/12 to discuss local government readiness and implementation of BIM in wider public sector. BIM strategy is also linked with CL workstream.
6	Performance Management	Alan Coole Peter McDermott (CCINW)	Procurement and Skills	Common NIEP national KPIs have been agreed with the regions and data is now being captured though frameworks. KPIs are focused on efficiency, localism and sustainability objectives. The KPIs are: · Cost/Time Predictability · SME Spend · SME Engagement · Local Employment · Apprenticeships · Fair Payment · Carbon · Waste to Landfill · Health and Safety · Client Satisfaction NIEP KPIs have been shared with ERG, Constructing Excellence, KPI Zone, CCI

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