{"id":11601,"date":"2015-12-02T15:02:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T15:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=11601"},"modified":"2015-11-30T17:34:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T17:34:43","slug":"scottish-public-sector-procurement-in-construction-views-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11601","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Public Sector Procurement in Construction: views sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>The Construction Industry Council (CIC) is seeking views on the proposals from the Scottish Government affecting procurement regulations<\/u><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>The Construction Industry Council writes:<br \/>\n<\/u>As part of the Scottish Government&#8217;s\u00a0\u2019Review of Scottish Public Sector Procurement in Construction\u2019\u00a0recommendations\u00a0implementation, Construction Scotland would like your views to help shape the future direction of the Scottish Construction Industry.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendations of the review report cover a wide range of issues and Construction Scotland will consider these under the key themes of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contracts &amp; Risk<\/li>\n<li>Payment Process<\/li>\n<li>Tender Process<\/li>\n<li>Sustainability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These themes include 38 of the 66 recommendations from the construction procurement review that are being taken forward for implementation which are summarised\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/miv00lb8mu7uwu3\/Construction Scotland Procurement Review Themes for Consultation%5B1%5D.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is also the opportunity to be involved with construction industry feedback on the implementation of BIM, modern methods of construction and new and emerging technologies as part of the implementation of recommendations from the \u2018Review of Scottish Public Sector Procurement in Construction\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get involved then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/DLCJXKL\" target=\"_blank\">register<\/a> your interest before 11 December 2015<\/p>\n<p>You will then be contacted to participate in this vitally important debate regarding the future of the Scottish Construction Industry.<\/p>\n<p>View the CIC <a href=\"http:\/\/cic.org.uk\/news\/article.php?s=2015-11-19-review-of-scottish-public-sector-procurement-in-construction\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs-ic.org\/constructionscotland\/industry-leadership-group\/working-groups\/procurement\/\" target=\"_blank\">information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/resource\/0043\/00436662.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">information<\/a> about the Scottish Government review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Construction Industry Council (CIC) is seeking views on the proposals from the Scottish Government affecting procurement regulations\u00a0 The Construction Industry Council writes: As part of the Scottish Government&#8217;s\u00a0\u2019Review of Scottish Public Sector Procurement in Construction\u2019\u00a0recommendations\u00a0implementation, Construction Scotland would like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11601\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11602,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions\/11602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}