28th April 2006, 02:08 PM
One issue I'd like to clear up - I don't disagree with Troll that policing of IFA standards is desirable; I just think that it is not practicable for the IFA to do it.
One way of looking at this is by analogy with the separation of powers in government. You could view the IFA as a sort of legislature, in that they make the rules, but not as the executive, which enforces them through policing. At present, the nearest thing to an executive that we have is a combination of curators and EH.
On competitive tendering - if you use detailed Bills of Quantities (BoQ), you can easily identify whether a specific item has been provided or not and how much to dock the contrator's payment by if they don't provide it. Detailed BofQs give you something to measure the contractor's performance by, and enable more effective policing, if there is someone there (the consultant? curator?) to do the policing. However, if the IFA was to do this themselves, they would need a staff of hundreds based in regional offices all over the country.
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One way of looking at this is by analogy with the separation of powers in government. You could view the IFA as a sort of legislature, in that they make the rules, but not as the executive, which enforces them through policing. At present, the nearest thing to an executive that we have is a combination of curators and EH.
On competitive tendering - if you use detailed Bills of Quantities (BoQ), you can easily identify whether a specific item has been provided or not and how much to dock the contrator's payment by if they don't provide it. Detailed BofQs give you something to measure the contractor's performance by, and enable more effective policing, if there is someone there (the consultant? curator?) to do the policing. However, if the IFA was to do this themselves, they would need a staff of hundreds based in regional offices all over the country.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished