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Be charitable, but not a charity: as clients navigate this period of uncertainty don’t be naïve with your supply chain
Be vigilant Over the past few weeks there has been no shortage of helpful advice...
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“How effective is your NEC cost-assurance?” NEC users’ group newsletter
We were delighted to be asked to contribute an article on cost-assurance to the NEC users’ group newsletter...
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NEC4 Webinar: Enhance trust and collaboration through effective assurance
This webinar will demonstrate how NEC4 seeks to enhance trust and collaboration and how this...
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NEC Webinar: Cost Effective Assurance
The role of Cost Assurance is to provide parties to a contract or a programme...
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Why the traditional, substantiation approach to cost checking misses major issues
Substantiation is of limited value Under cost reimbursable or target cost arrangements, clients need to...
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Cooky blew my stash – How NEC4 works to avoid this
NEC4 and the importance of avoiding a fait accompli Cooky blew my stash When I...
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Benchmarking construction arrangements in Internal Audit (and my garden shed)
My garden shed My old garden shed was falling to pieces and so I decided...
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Developing your Internal Audit team: beware the bow tie
Finding the right people can be challenging It’s a while since I had a proper...
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Sufficient reliable evidence: avoiding the disappointing pudding
The disappointing pudding I recently took my youngest daughter to dinner at a well-known restaurant...
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There is no such thing as mutual trust
A psychologist friend of mine once explained to me that trust is a personal thing....
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A lesson from Carillion
Avoid the unnecessary risk of becoming a creditor to an insolvent company by avoiding overpayments...
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NEC4: how effective assurance could enhance the NEC4 Alliance Contract
Some examples of assurance The word assurance is not well understood. To aid this understanding...
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