Project Compass’s report on the Thames Garden Bridge. This investigation uniquely explored issues around TfL’s procurement of the Bridge Design Services and Temple Bridge Lead consultant contracts awarded in 2013.
Properly-run design competitions are a rarity in the UK construction sector. This document sets out why Project Compass believes that design contest procedures can achieve exceptional design value, encourage innovation and delivery high levels of quality without exposing the commissioning client to unnecessary risk.
This EU project partnership with French, Spanish, UK, Czech and Italian participants included Walter Menteth, director of Project Compass. The project aims to improve opportunities and procedures for all architects, especially young professionals, through better understanding, knowledge sharing and collaborative strategies which address the European design competition system.
This brief report has been written to highlight how Regional Contractors Framework procurement has failed and how the situation could be improved to increase accessibility of contracts to the SME community, moving forward.
Projec Compass report into the trends in public procurement in the UK construction industry during the period 2009-2014 which evaluates the trends in UK public sector architectural design procurement for commissions that come within the remit of the European Union Directive 2004/14 and its threshold values over the last five years (2009-14).
The document highlights some of the principal concerns with how public buildings are currently commissioned in the UK and makes extensive recommendations as to how reform could help improve efficiencies, effectiveness and stimulate growth in construction and the economy.
The report examines the comparative implementation of the EU Public Procurement Directive, as it relates to the appointment of architects and the procurement of buildings in Germany, Sweden and the UK, and in the context of some of the RIBA’s key procurement reform recommendations set out in their report ‘Building Ladders of Opportunity’.
Published in 2012 in the suite of reports output by the RIBA’s Procurement Reform Group. The Case Studies in this report evidence practice and highlight some specifically identified issues confronting suppliers when bidding.
The RIBA Procurement Reform Group commissioned Mirza & Nacey Research to conduct an on-line survey amongst architectural practices during the period January to February 2012.
This response to the EU Green Paper Consultation from Walter Menteth Architects, the RIBA Small Practice Public Sector Procurement Working Group and the RIBA, was prepared by Walter Menteth on behalf of the group.
