Overview
The Business Models workstream has a number of elements to it. These include, guidance on, and adoption of, collaborative contractual practices, adoption of fairer payment practices, eliminating the need for retentions, supporting the implementation of an industry wide prequalification scheme, identifying new e-commerce platforms for embedding the previously mentioned good practice and improving productivity and supporting the introduction of other complementary procurement approaches such as the Value Toolkit, the Construction Playbook and Project 13.
Current activities
- Driving increased awareness and uptake of contractual guidance for collaboratively dealing with disputes
- Reviewing the impact of the CLC and Government support issued to date, forecasting the likely commercial impact of Covid-19, Brexit and other matters, such as Reverse Charge VAT, and developing further supporting interventions in response
- Developing initiatives for wider coverage and greater transparency on payment performance
- Driving improved compliance with existing payment legislation
- Promoting the exclusion of unfair contractual clauses from contracts
- Looking at how to eliminate the practice of cash retentions
An overview and directory of all COVID-19 contractual guidance and templates can be found here.