What is the SCAPE Scotland Construction framework?
Making a positive impact sits at the heart of everything we do. It's what being part of TeamSCAPE is all about.
We'll collaborate, communicate and commit to finding solutions to every client challenge. We'll engage as a team consistently with open and honest conversation that leads to clear, actionable evidence.
Together we create the inspiring places that enhance the communities in which we all live, learn, work, play, care and protect.
Our promise is that your projects will be delivered to the highest possible standard - a promise that's underpinned by performance outcomes from a decade of delivery together.
600+ authorities actively using SCAPE
Fully compliant with Public Procurement Regs
15 weeks faster than traditional tendering
A choice of delivery partners
99% projects on budget
9/10 customer satisfaction
Net Zero ready lifecycle contract
24 rigorous KPI's
Dedicated framework management and support
Indicative procurement for a £10m ‘Design & Build’ project can offer the following benefits over traditional procurement:
+14 weeks quicker to site
+20% faster than two-stage ‘open’ process
£24k procurement resource saving vs open tender
The SCAPE Construction framework provides clients with the fastest route to market. Its unique same day procurement model provides you with immediate access to the UK’s top contractors.
It also significantly reduces the time and cost associated with staging a competitive tender, helping you deliver your projects without delay.
Below is a typical example of how SCAPE compares with alternative frameworks and two stage ‘open’ procurement:
SCAPE's fully compliant, competitively tendered framework is designed to inject speed, confidence and certainty into your projects, while also ensuring they are delivered to the very highest standards.
Free to access
Free viability report
Free NEC training
Best in class delivery partners
100% market testing
Time and cost certainty
Performance management
Active client support
Procurement advice
Compliance audits
Active Modern Slavery policies
<19 day payment terms
+20% social value
+42/45 CCS scores
<20 mile local labour & spend
Ambitious waste reduction targets
The SCAPE Scotland framework constantly strives to go above and beyond for its clients to maximise the value of their investment as well as provide price and quality assurance. They are also focussed on positively impacting communities through local spend/labour, job creation and training, helping it deliver some of the highest social value returns in the industry.
A focus is also placed on demonstrating high levels of SME and supply chain engagement, with trade packages competitively tendered and shared with the client for full transparency. It also provides visibility of future pipelines and fostering a collaborative, to ensure an outcomes-based approach to the design and delivery of procurements.
From SCAPE’s transparent pre-market engagement and evaluation processes, through to the project and commercial delivery models that underpin our approach, it has rigorous procedures in place throughout the lifecycle of its frameworks to ensure they are compliant, competitively tendered and driving value for money at every stage.
SCAPE frameworks use a rigorous pre-qualify selection process to ensure that only high-quality, reliable partners are involved.
Approximately 250 contractors registered an interest in being a delivery partner on SCAPE’s National Construction framework, however only 20 contractors were able to demonstrate they had the required capability to deliver the required services and therefore proceed to the PQQ/ITT stage.
The PQQ/ITT process assessed quality and commercial scoring as well as conducting face-to-face interviews. The mechanism of the framework was based on a two-stage open book procurement model, with the contractors overheads, people rates, profit and fees competed in the market at ITT stage.
These were then fixed for the life of the framework, with package procurement costs shared and agreed with the client team on every project.
SCAPE is the only framework that carries out continuous auditing - both at company and project level - to provide clients with the confidence that the framework's principals are being consistently challenged, applied and that best practice is being demonstrated at all stages of a project.
These audits cover:
Commercial model
Governance
Compliance
Transparency
Framework KPIs
Client-set KPIs
Supply chain
Social value
We know that local authorities continue to face unprecedented pressures to implement public services with greater benefits, relative to costs.
On this challenge, the SCAPE Construction framework delivers. Compliant and competitively tendered, it fixes the partner and pre-construction fees as well as the design management and people costs (shown opposite) at framework award stage.
This means every contractor partner provides you the assurance of a fixed cost on these elements on day one. The remaining project cost is then made up of sub-contract packages, every single one is market tested at the point of delivery (with a minimum of three supplier quotations).
SCAPE provides clients with a compliant and competitively tendered framework, plus access to industry-leading contractors that inject speed, confidence and certainty into your projects.
It is designed to accelerate your essential projects and deliver them to the highest standard, no matter where in Scotland it is.
Depending on where you currently are within your journey, and your understanding of SCAPE Scotland and Morgan Sindall, one of the next three steps will represent an entry point for you and your project.
Click: Access SCAPE Framework finder
To use any SCAPE framework, a simple form called an Access Agreement needs to be signed. You can request this form by clicking here.
Once the agreement is signed, you can work with SCAPE and Morgan Sindall Construction to begin shaping your needs. At completion of this stage you will prepare and sign a Project Request form.
In depth discussion and workshops to define your project aspirations, timescales and budget, culminating in your free feasibility study.
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