Consultant Procurement

Description

All construction and refurbishment projects will require a professional consultancy team to undertake the required services to facilitate the project. 

The services typically procured for each project are: 

  • Project Manager/Employer's Agent (PM/EA)
  • Quantity Surveyor/Cost Manager (QA/CM)
  • Lead Consultant
  • Architect
  • Structural/Civil Engineer
  • Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing (MEP) Engineer
  • Principal Designer CDM and Building Regulations
  • Fire Engineer
  • Planning Consultant
  • BREEAM
  • Building Control Advisor
  • Building Control Approver 

The Procurement Plan for the project will determine the procurement and contracting strategy to procure the consultant team. Utilising the support of the CM and the available suite of control templates, the requester can develop a tender enquiry pack to issue to a relevant consultancy service provider(s) and initiate a procurement process.

Engagement

  • End User Client to support the procurement process
  • Category Manager (Abad Zalal - a.zalal@imperial.ac.uk) to review and approve enquiry/tender documents, support/lead the procurement process and contracting strategy implementation
  • Sustainability Programme Manager to support the implemenation of sustainability into the tender process
  • Space Management Team/Records & Archvies Officer (cad.compliance@imperial.ac.uk) / (Alyson Brewer - a.brewer@imperial.ac.uk) to support the procurement process with requirements from the relevant teams
  • Responsible Director of Department to support the tender evaluation prcoess and approve the tender report

Forms & Links

Approvals & Compliance Review 

Category Manager to review and approve enquiry/tender documents, lead/support procurement process and contracting strategy implementation.

Repeated Subsequent RIBA Stages 

The consultant procurement is typically completed in the following sequence:

Sequence 1:
  • Procure a Design Team to prepare a Brief/Feasibility Study (RIBA 0-1)
  • Procure a professional team to prepare a Brief/Feasibility Study (RIBA 0-1)
Sequence 2:
  • Procure a Design Team to prepare RIBA 2-6 Design Information
  • Procure a professional team to support the RIBA 2-6 information and delivery
Sequence 3:
  • Procure Ancillary Consultants to support the project