The following ranges apply:
Learning Outcomes 1 and 2
• Tender - type:
- contractor
- sub/works/trade contractor
- supply
- consultancy
• Tender requirements:
- construction
- installation and maintenance work
- supply of goods and materials
- consultancy services
• Decision makers:
- clients and their agents
- colleagues
- line managers
- specialists - internal or external to organisation
• Points of concern:
- inconsistent with the policy of the organisation
- discrepancies within enquiry information
- tender procedure requirements
- quantitative requirements
- qualitative requirements
- contractual requirements
• Tender documents - type:
- invitation to tender
- form of tender
- returns procedure
- survey reports
- specifications
- drawings
- schedules
- bills of quantities
- health and safety & welfare policies
- environmental policies
- scope of services
- terms and conditions
- schedule of rates
- procedures for submitting tenders
- evaluation criteria and procedures
• Organisational capability:
- financial
- viability of tendering information
- current workload
- type of work
- competence of people
- timescale (tender & contract)
- social policies
- environmental impact
- location
- social and political policies
Learning Outcomes 3 and 4
• Information:
- drawings
- schedules
- specifications
- information about the contract and allocation of risks and responsibilities
- quotations
- records of queries raised and answers
- standard methods of measurement
- technical literature
• Measurement - relates to:
- trade
- elemental
- operational
- approximate
- schedules of rates
• Measure dimensions and calculate quantities:
- manual
- electronic
• Calculate cost:
- manual
- electronic
• Estimate:
- cost based on a quotation
- unit cost built up from basic data
- internal and historical cost data
- published cost data
• Intended purpose:
- procurement
- contract
- production
• Resources - type:
- people (in-house, external)
- plant and equipment
- materials
- finance
- time
- supply options
• Tender requirements:
- invitation to tender
- form of tender
- returns procedure
- surveys
- specifications
- drawings
- schedules
- bills of quantities
- health, safety and welfare requirements
- scope of services
- terms and conditions
- schedules of rates
- evaluation criteria and procedures
- environmental requirements
- procedures for submitting tenders
• External factors:
- variations over time
- geographic location
- statutory and contractual requirements
- special working conditions and methods
- special resourcing conditions and availability
Learning Outcomes 5 and 6
• Explain and clarify:
- orally
- written
- electronic
• Tender offer
- contractor
- sub/works/trade contractor
- supply
- consultancy
- purchase
This unit must be assessed in a work environment, in accordance with the ConstructionSkills‘ Consolidated Assessment Strategy for Construction and the Built Environment.
Assessors for this unit must have verifiable, current industry experience and a sufficient depth of relevant occupational expertise and knowledge, and must use a combination of assessment methods as defined in the Consolidated Assessment Strategy.
Workplace evidence of skills cannot be simulated.