How to deliver best value and choose the correct partner for your office refurbishment
How do you deliver best value for your business? The primary goal needs to be to define your office fit-out project, this means you need to have a design or plan with a specification.
You have two routes to achieving this:
A: Request free designs and quotes from several companies
B: Instruct or pay for a design and specification and then decide a procurement process for the elements
Pros & Cons: Request for free designs and quotes from several companies
Pros:
– Perceived free option
– No commitment
Cons:
- You will ask for the designs and specs at some point to be able to compare costs and deliver a procurement process.
- You do not own the information as such it can be awkward to get the factual information required
- How many variations can you request for free?
- All projects go through a design and cost loop to develop the project to deliver your requirements at the correct cost
- Is it reasonable for a contractor to undertake CDM regulations for free?
You will get the contractor sales pitch to win the deal not your specific requirements with a detailed document and design to be able to go to market and procure
Pros & Cons: Instruct or pay for a design and specification and then decide a procurement
Pros:
- You will retrain and design a company to develop your specific requirement
- You will retain a design and build company or building surveyor to develop you cost profile from day one.
- Complete control over design and costs to evolve to deliver best value and outcomes for the business
- Give responsibility to experienced and qualified partners to manage CDM – Building Regs – Fire regs and construction planning which are all legal requirements
- Once the design and costing stage is completed you can then decide who to deliver it. Are there elements you can deliver?
- Do you have existing suppliers you want to use? IT partners or critical services?
- You can split the project up into manageable pieces to agree who is doing what with a fully costed plan and program of works to start building a timeline for the project.
Cons:
- We always advise to pay for Design & Specification to enable you define your project and deliver best value. The return on investment in time alone will cover any cost. A sensible cost is in the rage fo 31 to 50 pence psqft to develop the project