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Tendering strategies
Published July 2014
Effective from 1 January 2015
This 1st edition guidance note summarises what tendering is and how tendering processes are used to establish a contract price. It also reviews different types of tendering and negotiation strategies and their advantages and disadvantages. It seeks to enhance the knowledge and understanding of the tendering and negotiation processes involved in procurement.
This is part of the RICS QS and construction standards (the 'Black Book'). -
Whole life carbon assessment for the built environment
Published 19 September 2023
Reissued 21 November 2023
Effective from 1 July 2024
This professional standard will enable professionals to make prudent decisions to limit the whole life carbon impact of buildings and infrastructure. It facilitates carbon measurement from the production of construction materials to the design, construction and eventual end of life of built assets. -
Procurement of facility management
Published October 2020
Effective from January 2021
Reissued December 2023
This professional standard provides guidance on the various factors that need to be considered throughout a procurement process, including activities and key decisions during planning, procurement and post-procurement
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The document is aimed at public and private sector property professionals involved in a facility management (FM) procurement process either within their territory or region, or globally. This includes property managers, directors of estates, heads of FM, consultants, RICS-regulated firms acting for a landlord and FM suppliers procuring services from subcontractors. Those managing in-house teams delivering FM services may also find some of the content helpful.
This document was reissued in December 2023 as a professional standard. It had previously been published in October 2020 as a code of practice. No material changes have been made to the document.