ISO Series on Construction Procurement

Earlier this year the International Standards Organisation published ISO 10845 a series of standards for construction procurement. The objective of the ISO 10845 series is to provide a generic and standard set of processes, procedures and methods for a procurement system that is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost effective and which may be used to promote objectives additional to those associated with the immediate objective of the procurement itself. The ISO series is as follows:

ISO 10845-1 Processes, methods and procedures
ISO 10845-2 Formatting and compilation of procurement documentation
ISO 10845-3 Standard conditions of tender
ISO 10845-4 Standard conditions of tender for the calling for an expression of interest
ISO 10845-5 Participation of targeted enterprises in contracts
ISO 10845-6 Participation of targeted partners in joint ventures in contracts
ISO 10845-7 Participation of targeted enterprises and targeted labour (local resources) in contracts
ISO 10845-8 Participation of targeted labour in contracts

I would be interested to hear from proact members if they were aware of the ISO and if they believe it will be adopted by the public and private sector.

I have to declare an interest, as I was the British Standards Institute representative on the ISO working group.

I look forward to hearing your views.

John

http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1407

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Permalink Reply by Mokuolu Isaac on December 2, 2011 at 19:44

This is a good initiative that is aimed at standardising procurement practices globally.

I just hope it wil take care of different domestic preferences, soccio-economic considerations in diffrent procurement regulations for the varying environments.

I see it as being a success.

Isaac.

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Permalink Reply by Marlon M. Martin on April 24, 2012 at 15:25

I agree with you. This initiative is a great one and need some PR work through the regions. Governments need to be briefed first along with major stakeholders. Since the government is the single largest procurement entity, they need to adopt international standards, in order to attract more funding. At this stage for example, The Master Builders Association, Bureau of Standards or the Engineering Institute needs to host workshop on these standards. Using this approach I believe it will be a success not only in Jamaica but the regions.

Marlon