Apart from the purely practical implications of compliance, the new Part L has prompted interesting questions concerning procurement and the impact on design and construction teams.
Additionally, there are cash outflows for the availability of plant and warehouse locations (e.g., rent, maintenance), cash outflows concerning procurement, production, storage and transport as well as cash outflows resulting from supplier business relations (e.g., receipt and inspection of raw materials) and market penetration (e.g., marketing and sales manager).
The most serious investigation certainly the most politically consequential is "File 3000," which concerns the procurement of German military vessels.
"It is not because of the lack of will, but rather due to interoperability issues, privacy issues, chip-durability concerns and procurement delays," they wrote.
He added: "Having listened to business concerns about procurement, I can announce that the bill will also seek to ensure that all public bodies in Scotland adopt transparent, streamlined and standardised procurement processes that are friendly to Scottish businesses".
The proposed schema and way of working are demonstrated through a number of examples, which are derived from an industrial project concerning electronic procurement in the construction sector.
In order to validate this choice, it is necessary, firstly to verify that it is able to withstand the planned environmental and operating conditions, and secondly to check if it is covered by the existing design codes, concerning its procurement, fabrication, welding, examination methods and mechanical design rules.
Concerns over the procurement process forced former commissioner of Sir Peter Hendy to order a review of the procurement process for the project's design.
The chair of the committee, Louise Ellman, is to ask McLoughlin whether the fiasco will delay completion of the Thameslink contract because of concerns over DfT procurement processes.
