Dear Simon (and all)
I’m not sure that it is at all a good idea to burden a contract for Engineering Works with requirements for promoting STEM engagement. I’ve been knocking around in informal STEM education/engagement for a good few years now and I simply don’t think that any engineering contractors have the necessary skills and resources to provide what you desire. Why should they? Their business model, and expertise, is all about doing the job right first time, on time, and within budget. They simply don’t, for the most part, employ people with the skill set to deliver any kind of STEM engagement. Some firms may well have apprenticeships and graduate trainee schemes and similar in place, but these are really part of the formal training process for professional engineers and technicians and it may or may not be appropriate in the context of the training requirement for these people to include work on your project.
I applaud your desire to use your project, whatever it is, to promote STEM engagement, but I am really not sure that tying this work so directly to the contract for delivering the engineering part of this scheme is an appropriate way of securing the goals you seek. Far better to set up and fund a separate STEM engagement project to run alongside the engineering works and managed by properly qualified and experienced STEM engagement professionals.
By all means include a requirement in the contract for the engineering works that the contractor is to cooperate with your STEM engagement project as far as possible, and that they will be required to make the site available for public visits on high days and holidays -the National Trust has some experience of doing this, I think - but don’t expect engineering contractors to deliver STEM engagement any more than you’d expect STEM engagement people to do a good job of running your engineering project.
Hope this helps
All the best
Richard.
Richard Ellam
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> On 20 Jun 2018, at 10:56, Simon Watts <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> We are in the process of putting some civil engineering work out to tender. This will be part of a Heritage Lottery Fund bid and we want to work with the successful contractor to engage the public in understanding why the work is taking place and in providing training opportunities / placements and site visits for FE and HE students studying engineering.
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> Does anyone have any experience or advice around embedding similar corporate social responsibility into invitations to tender? Or would they be willing to share the relevant sections of their documents?
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> Many thanks,
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