The Cabinet Office is to instigate a system to guide and monitor public sector projects that are trialling three new methods of procurement. Project will be assigned expert mentors to guide procurement staff, who will also be able to draw on a 30-page guide to the new approaches: cost-led procurement, two-stage open book tendering and lean procurement.
The programme is being co-ordinated by the Trial Project Support Group, which was set up in September and is chaired by Constructing Excellence chief executive Don Ward.
In a report in Construction Manager Ward commented: "Each project will be assigned a university academic to lead on co-ordinating the data, and there will be four interviews over the course of the project to collect information at different points. We will also be having meetings with the project teams, where each project will present on its progress, so there will be regular peer review."