DRAFT NEW BEST PRACTICE: Contractor Prequalification
Pre-Qualification of Contractors Charter Position Statement
Within the industry, Owner and Contractor organizations employ a myriad of approaches to performing the screening or prequalification of contractors and their sub-tier contractors. These approaches include individually tailored information gathering documents, a third party agency to collect data and approve contractors or a combination of the aforementioned. COAA believes that the maintenance of duplicate data, in multiple locations, in multiple formats is a cumbersome and unnecessarily costly approach to the Contractors, which is ultimately passed on to the Owners in the form of project costs.
Objectives:
- Generate efficiencies / reduce costs associated with delivery of all aspects of pre-qualification processes
- Develop a recommended standard with respect to how the industry should conduct the pre-qualification process for industrial construction
- Recommendations will include direction regarding the sourcing of pre-qualification information between third party services and information collected directly by the Owner based on a proposed index of areas of evaluation
- Highlight the costs associated with a repetitive, non standard pre-qualification processes (timing and frequency are significant issues)
- Recommendations to include pre-qualification of subcontractors