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In this article, you will discover everything you need to know about the construction industry standard pre-qualification questionnaire and how to effectively use it to reduce supply chain risk and time spend on your procurement process.
Summary
In this article you will learn about:
What is PAS-91?
Where did the standard originate?
Published in 2010 by the?BSI?(British Standards Institute), the Publicly Available Specification number 91 (PAS-91) defined a set of standardised questions to be used by a principal contractor to determine the suitability of a supplier during project tendering.
What is included within the standards?
The PAS-91 questions are categorised into modules. With these modules, buyers can determine the suitability of suppliers based on their competence across up to 8 key areas of risk management. We will discuss
When is the standard used?
PAS-91 can be used for a variety of different projects since these modules allow principal contractors to focus on project-specific requirements. In the construction industry for example, projects that are required to comply with?CDM 2015?regulations can use PAS-91 modules to demonstrate and ensure compliance with these regulations.
Who is PAS-91 for?
This standard set of questions is for both ends of the supply chain and provides benefits across the board. Both the buyer and supplier can reap the benefits of employing PAS-91:
Buyers Benefits
Supplier Benefits
PAS-91 has undergone several revisions since its conception and now is considered to be applicable beyond the construction industry and extends into facilities through building information management and modelling.
Why was PAS-91 created?
The construction industry had for many years struggled with lost time during pre-qualification – a lot of unnecessary effort and cost was expended by both buyers and suppliers. The BSI along with the UK government and other stakeholders sought to create a universal set of questions that were common to all construction procurement and would prompt unambiguous responses and increase potential for recognition by all current pre-qualification schemes.
What areas does PAS-91 Cover?
PAS-91 is comprised of four core and four optional modules. The core modules contain questions that are to be asked in every situation. The optional modules concern areas of supplier capability that buyers frequently want or need to know about. This is often dependent on the type of job that needs doing or the type of organisation overseeing it.
Free PAS-91 Checklist
Our free PAS-91 pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) Checklist has been built using the British PAS-91 standard and will help you to to build a PQQ that will reduce supply chain risk and ensure you're procuring quality suppliers.
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What is the purpose of Pas 91?
Key objectives when PAS 91 was published was to reduce duplicate processes, unnecessary paperwork and excessive costs across the construction industry that had posed an issue for too long. PAS 91 also aims to raise the bar for supply chain standards. PAS 91 did not aim to introduce any new questions, simply standardise those that were already being asked by buyers in the industry.
Another aim of PAS 91 was to increase the likelihood that the pre-qualification process was gladly participated in by suppliers of all sizes. Previously, there was reluctance from especially small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to engage in the pre-qualification process.
The continuous?updating of PAS 91?to bring it inline with construction industry and health and safety executive (HSE) guidelines ensures that the standard will provide benefits to an ever wider group of businesses in an increasingly widening selection of industries.
Is PAS-91 compulsory?
HSE?and?SSIP?guidance does not make the use of PAS-91 compulsory, but buyers and suppliers alike realise the benefit provided to them by engagement with the standard and working with pre-qualification questionnaires designed around the PAS-91 framework.
Our Solution is Samson
All 8 modules of PAS-91 are available to use for issue by a buyer, but they are not just limited to these eight. Buyers may add or remove any other modules to suit their pre-qualifying requirements on their?Samson?portal. These makes?Samson?flexible, bespoke and extendable beyond just construction and facilities. Bear in mind that the first 4 modules of PAS-91 are simply to do with the standing and competence of the supplier, and the requirement for this information is industry-agnostic.
Using Samson, buyers, procurement officers, principal contractors can pre-qualify their supply chain to the latest amended edition of?PAS 91:2013+A1:2017?using the web-app provided by?Liaison Systems.
Samson?can also provide a?pre-construction questionnaire?available to all buyers. A?pre-construction questionnaire?covers details specific to a project, such as those responsible for first aid, or procurement of a confined-space specialist – have site operatives received advice on this? As an example.
With Samson the buyer has full control over which suppliers are approved. This gives the buyer full control over the speed of the process making Samsons pre-qualification process fast! A supplier can complete the questionnaire and be approved in 1-2 hours whereas, with our competitors systems it can take weeks.
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As our business has grown Liaison has become ever more useful in properly vetting and approving our supply chain in an efficient and cost effective manner; Liaison takes the drudgery out of information gathering in an efficient and user friendly fashion, it has been a great help and time saver to our organisation.
?NIGEL BELLAMY, 8build