Form of Tender for Building Work

[TeeRev]

We're steadily moving forward with our project to build nine houses on our redundant industrial site and I had some very good advice about contracts on here a while ago.

We have now made the decision that rather than try to manage it ourselves we are going to project manage and build using a main contractor under a JCT Intermediate Contract with some revisions still to be decided.

We're just about to submit drawings for Building Regs and I've been working on a specification to build with our architect and QS but nobody seems to use any sort of standard Form of Tender document to send out to prospective contractors, they just to do each enquiry individually.

I was thinking of basic wording, lists of works and boxes to tick, I can obviously design and write something up but it occurred to me that with the depth of knowledge on here someone might know of something that can save me a bit of time and research.

[kiethton]

This is a job which should fall firmly within the remit of your QS, especially one with a little Project Management experience - why not delegate it to him/her?

You then have somebody accountable if there is a cock-up and an additional layer of PI to rely upon if things go wrong/are built to the complete wrong spec.

[CRB14]

Agreed, there is nothing standard really. It is you (or the QS) that should decide who is going to supply and install each element of the project. When you go out to subcontractors they will, or should, expect to be told what to price for.

The bits most likely to be missed or cause confusion will be the interface between joiners and plasterers. Also electricians / plumbers so it may be best to have your M&E package done by one company.

You groundworks package should be the one where you spend most time and where you have the highest risk.