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Practice Note 7: Subcontracting arrangements (version 1 - May 2007)
May 2007
This Practice Note examines the different types of subcontractors that are encountered in construction works, namely nominated, selected and domestic. It presents an overview of the subcontracting provision of the FIDIC, GCC 2004, JBCC Series 2000 and NEC3 standard forms of contract as well as the CIDB registration requirements and other public sector requirements. |
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Practice Note 6: Competitive selection of professional service providers (version 1 - May 2007)
May 2007
This Practice Note identifies the fundemental reasons for procuring professional services and the key considerations in engaging professional service providers, discusses professional registration with a statutory body and identifies a number of differentiators between professionals and professional service providers that form the cornerstone of any competitive selection process. |
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Practice Note 5: Evaluating tender offers (version 1 - May 2007)
May 2007
This Practice Note sets out the activities that are associated with the evaluation of tender offers. In doing so it establishes the linkages between activities and the relevant clauses contained in the CIDB Standard Conditions of Tender. |
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Practice Note 4: Procuring best value in construction works (version 1 - May 2007)
May 2007
This Practice Note descries the process that should be followed when seeking to optimise choices that are made in order to obtain best value. It also outlines the range of options that are available to optimise procurement outcomes. |
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Strategic Research into Opportunities for Job Creation, New Enterprise Development and Empowerment in the Value System of the Building and Construction Industry (Executive Summary)
March 2007
The dti and cidb commissioned research to develop strategic understanding of the structure of the building and construction industry, including raw materials through to manufacturing, and to identify the opportunities for job creation, new enterprise development and empowerment in value added products of the industry supply chain. |
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Implementing Employment Intensive Road Works - A cidb Practice Manual
March 2007
The aim of this manual is to provide contractors, involved in the labour-based construction and upgrading of low volume roads, with an introduction to and basic understanding of mathematical concepts and calculations; survey concepts and calculations; materials and materials related concepts and typical road terms and components encountered in the construction of these roads. |
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Demand for Skills: An Analysis of the Proposed Infrastructure Spending Programme
November 2006
The cidb commissioned a study to assess the demand for skills that is expected to arise from the infrastructure spending programme announced by Government and the State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and other major private sector clients over the next twenty years. This study provided an input into the cidb’s report on Skills for Infrastructure Delivery in South Africa: The Challenge of Restoring the Skills Pipeline. |
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Practice Note 3: Applying the Register of Contractors in Construction Works Contracts (version 1 - September 2006)
September 2006
This Practice Note identifies which contractors need to register, describes the categories of registration, the contractor grading designation, and establishes a step by step procedure to satisfy the requirements of the regulations in relation to quotations, tenders and expressions of interest. |
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Practice Note 2: Correcting Arithmetical Errors in Tenders (version 2 - September 2006)
August 2006
This Practice Note sets out the manner in which arithmetical corrections are to be made in the evaluation of tenders in accordance with the CIDB Standard Conditions of Tender. |
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Practice Note 1: Scaling up delivery and accelerating empowerment (version 1 - August 2006)
August 2006
This Practice Note identifies systemic problems in scaling up delivery and accelerating empowerment and outlines fresh approaches to procurement and delivery, which focuses on changes in contracting strategies and the size and duration of contracts in a manner which promotes accelerated empowerment. |
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Construction Procurement Best Practice Library
Government Gazette 28127 of October 2005
The CIDB has published a Construction Procurement Best Practice Library in Government Gazette 26427 of June 9 2004 as amended in Government gazettes 27831 of July 2005 and 28127 of October 2005. The library documents may be used to implement construction procurement in accordance with the requirements of the CIDB Standard for Uniformity in Construction Procurement. |
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Update to Strategic Assessment of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Opportunities in the Building and Construction Industry System (Executive Summary)
May 2005
Research was conducted on behalf of the cidb into the opportunities for BEE in the larger Building and Construction Industry System in SA. The research combined desk and field research, and covered manufacturing in the major building product groups, distribution, and contracting. |
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Labour-based Methods and Technologies for Employment Intensive Construction Works - A cidb Guide to Best Practice
March 2005
These best practice guidelines present current state-of-the-art practices in a wide range of labour-based construction methods, manufacturing methods and technologies which have been successfully utilised in South Africa in recent years. They are intended to provide sufficient technical information on such methods and technologies to enable those responsible for the design of projects to make confident and informed choices on their use in project. |
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Towards Sustainable Contractor Development 2005: National Contractor Workshop
March 2005
This national workshop held in march 2005, which was the first national workshop on contractor development to be held since 2000, was structured to bring together clients, development agencies and industry role-players to share experiences in contractor development, review successes and lessons learned, discuss the need for a new emphasis on sustainable enterprise growth and explore the potential within he new policy and regulatory environment to achieve greater impact in the targeting of development interventions aimed at SME’s. |
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3 R Basic Guide for SMEs
August 2004
The 3Rs Basic Guide for SMEs is a response by the cidb to some of the problems raised by emerging contractors. Access to contract opportunities has been widely promoted by most public sector agencies but the sustainability of small contractors is jeopardised by the following issues that have been raised by the sector. |
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Code of Conduct for all Parties Engaged in Construction Procurement
October 2003
Good corporate governance is being introduced throughout the world as a business imperative offering competitive advantage. Investors and employers prefer to do business with those business enterprises that uphold the key elements of corporate governance, namely discipline, transparency, independence, accountability, responsibility, fairness and social responsibility. The CIDB in consultation with Industry Stakeholders has developed a Code of Conduct for all parties engaged in Construction Procurement. |
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