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Procurement Report: Riverside Sunderland Project

Procurement Report: Riverside Sunderland Project

Student Number: W20051791
Professor’s Name: Dr. Victor Samwinga
Course Title: Procurement and Supply Chain Management
Executive Summary
Riverside Sunderland requires a feasible procurement report that shall provide proper insights related to project components and the crucial internal activities directed at building advance carbon-neutral homes. Analysis of energy efficiency is crucial since the current advanced environment operates in methods that cause a lot of environmental pollution. It is imperative to create accurate connection to project activities since this shall improve on feasible project activities that create accuracy at all times and promote delivery of a project’s vision components. Sunderland City Council has proposed to operate using current carbon-neutral home management processes which improve on concurrency with project management processes (Pomponi & Amico, 2018).. The site shall allow construction of all the 1000 homes structured to improve on productive change improvement towards construction areas and the ability to work with persons experienced in construction. The procurement report involves analysis of techniques of procuring works and services that are imperative in promoting accurate project cohesion. Involvement of current methods of improving project activities is crucial to facilitate market improvement since it is possible to reduce costs and create feasible project activities. All stakeholders in the project got discussed and connected to their roles which promote high-quality connection to project activities. Vitality life is the main funding partner that understands how concurrency with construction designs requires a large budget which shall promote access to different project components (Pheng & Hou, 2019). It is thus crucial to create a conducive environment which allows proper access to project activities and a reliable method of creating accuracy during all project components improvement sessions.

Table of Contents
Executive Summary 2
Introduction 2
Method of Procuring the Works and Services 2
Budget Allocation and Activities 3
Funding Partners Activities 5
Project Participant Roles 6
Appropriate Procurement Arrangement 7
Tendering Strategy 8
Conclusion and Recommendations 9

Procurement Report
Introduction
Sunderland City Council’s proposed development shall provide a high standard project once it performs accurate internal activities that improve on productivity. There can be constant feasible project components once the council analyzes the proposed city and how it shall serve 2500 persons. Integration of current environmental factors is crucial since it shall promote quality handling of all the proposed 1000 homes. Division of the homes’ budget is imperative to determine how procurement and supply chain activities shall get performed. The proposed development shall operate using the £160 million after analyzing programme features and promoting reliable project development factors. Working with standardized designs is the best method of ensuring productive improvement and quality work.
Cost minimization is imperative in the process since it ensures all construction activities shall get connected to experienced persons. Supply chain management is imperative in the process to ensure program activities involve programme certainty after constantly involving innovation and allowing intelligence activities to get performed to improve on interconnection between all departments in the project. The proposed project start date is January 2022 thus a feasible project development procedure is crucial to ensure technical activities always get performed to involve consultation activities for the project’s financial allocation processes. This paper shall explain how different procurement activities shall get performed to improve on project effectiveness.
Method of Procuring the Works and Services
It is imperative to plan each work and service since this shall improve on the development of Sunderland City Council’s internal activities. Different purchases and acquisitions must get planned to determine the best method of promoting project completion. A crucial basis for the project is use of contracts since this shall improve on project performance. The best method of improving productivity for the project is by using cost-reimbursable contracts that shall ensure only activities that get performed in the project get provided with payments (Dixit et al., 2019). Working with external contractors shall ensure the project operates effectively and improves on purchase of goods for the project since different project components are crucial to generate better productivity. Riverside Sunderland shall provide 1000 homes all constructed to handle carbon neutral development procedures. The image in figure 1 displays how homes create carbon dioxide which indicates the need to establish sustainability.
Figure 1

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Working with an external contractor conversant with smart home development is mandatory since this shall ensure the cost-reimbursable project development method generates quality construction and a reliable method of securing healthy living. The proposed connection with Legal and General shall improve on the contract technique selected since it shall be possible to provide quality housing markets and an impactful process of allowing Riverside Sunderland to provide clients with quality homes after using a cost-efficient development procedure. It is imperative to use the project development mentioned of cost-reimbursable contracts with Legal and General since the insurance giant shall protect homeowners when they get signed up for their services. This shall only happen once the homes get developed and people start purchasing or leasing them.
Use of a cost-reimbursable contract type is crucial for the procurement project since it validates all of Sunderland City Council’s plans as it receives funding from Vitality Life. Analysis of costs is crucial since it shall determine how internal activities at the project would get structured and suit all project components. Payment of different expenses shall get performed after Vitality Life receives the procurement plan and budget allocation details from the Sunderland City Council. Recording of all project activities and their costs is crucial to determine quality management of internal activities since this process shall improve on project costs and allocation of internal activities (Alaloul and Musarat, 2020). It is imperative to divide project activities since this shall improve on analysis of defined amount and how different project components shall get structured to improve on productive project management (Dixit et al., 2019). Use of a time frame is crucial to allow the project to operative effectively and divided activities based on the time allocated. The project shall take 21 months from January 2022 to September 2023.
All the proposed neighborhoods shall get worked on by the same contractor to ensure uniformity in terms of house designs and quality. Constructions in Vaux, Farringdon Row, Ayre’s Quay and Sheepfolds shall operate in quality standards after analyzing how home designs would get integrated into the city’s structure. Since the majority of the maisonettes and houses shall be 3 or 4 bedrooms, it shall be possible to work with quality contractors who shall improve on productive home development factors. Integration of sustainability procedures is crucial to ensure all internal project components get structured to create an area that offers safety for all constituents.
Analysis of different services in the Sunderland City Council environment shall be crucial to determine how to divide activities and improve on accuracy of all procurement components. It is crucial to analyze sourcing and purchasing of goods, materials, and services for internal use. Construction of the carbon neutral community requires contracting an experienced company since this shall promote development of quality houses after learning how the area shall operate in high standards (Pheng & Hou, 2019). Working with energy efficient companies is mandatory to ensure the funding acquired from Vitality Life shall generate quality project activities (Zhang & Cheng, 2021). Working with a company that provides construction goods is crucial since this shall promote direct access to different project requirements.
Selection of a single contractor that deals with construction materials is crucial to facilitate unform construction and reduction of impending risks. Construction projects require risk management since this shall facilitate productive change towards all professional developments and it shall be possible to create compliance for different construction techniques (Vogt, 2019). After working with all the operational techniques, it shall be possible to build on accurate project procedures. Management of construction services and procurement can be possible by constantly working with consulting services which shall improve on workforce enhancement procedures. The construction environment requires quality integration of services since this process ensure reliable project development after constantly working with goods’ acquisition procedures which improve on access to raw materials and distribution of different items for the construction area.
Budget Allocation and Activities
Budget allocation is crucial in the Riverside Sunderland development project since it shall allow accurate management of different project components and a reliable improvement in productivity. The budget shall get allocated to the development of the 1000 homes that serve diverse client requirements. All the costs in the budget plan shall get structured to create management of all houses and the costs shall represent costs for all the homes. The price for each component in the budget shall be for each house in the proposed project area. According to the budget below, it shall be possible for the project to incorporate current standards of sustainable development. The carbon-neutral community shall get constructed in efficient methods as it uses the techniques mentioned in the budget section (Williams et al., 2021). The table 1 in appendix section illustrates different budget components.
Analysis of the budget indicates that it shall be possible to provide feasible project components after managing different components and creating a reliable project management procedure. The plan for each house shall be $6,000 as the basis for improving quality designs that improve on productivity and development of the houses’ advanced design. It is imperative to generate current design constraints since this improve on sustainability and connection to the environment’s critical needs for safety of all persons (Wai-Ming et al., 2018). Handling of different project components is crucial to determine improvement of administrative management of the houses’ development. It is imperative to constantly connect to the construction zone’s constraints since these are imperative in promoting reliable house branding and connection to tenants’ expectations.
The budget in table 1 above indicates the actual and estimated costs involved in the project. There is a strong connection to accurate resource allocation in the project since this improves on productive change improvements in the project based on the possibility of creating quality structures that connect to the proposed Sunderland City Council development. It is crucial to concentrate on improving quality developments as provided by Vitality Life’s high-quality structures which improve on the provision of a feasible future of carbon-neutral communities (Siziri et al., 2021). Working with the estimated costs shall improve on productive management of the areas and allow different project components to serve the areas’ needs.
Analysis of different requirements in the project is crucial to determine an accurate process of increasing project activities’ accuracy at all times. The fees for engineering, administrative costs, legal, financing, survey, and permits are all imperative based on their connection to the project and allocation of funds based on the proposed carbon-neutral community. All mandatory requirements for handling the project’s commencement shall take approximately $48,000 to cover each house’s construction. In this way, management of the project shall be possible and improve on productive construction designs.
The budget for site preparation shall take approximately $48000 to cover different components and improvement of the project’s activities. It shall be possible to promote quality job environment management after determining how dumpster access, equipment, and job-site activities shall all get handled. Budget allocation for the on-site water/sewage operations shall be possible after handling diverse project components that improve on quality improvement of all sections. The $24,000 fees allocated for the on-site water/sewage activities is sufficient to handle accurate project activities and connection to quality designs. Handling inspection of different components is imperative and improves on quality increase in project feasibility. The budget for zero carbon architecture is sufficient and improves on quality handling of project activities. It shall be possible for the entire project to conform to current sustainability guidelines.

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Funding Partners Activities
The main funding partner for the Sunderland City Council area is Vitality Life that provides the £160 million for quality project development. Working with consulting services is crucial for the project and Vitality Life since this activity shall create project commencement especially after connecting the budget to different project activities. Consulting activities are crucial for the entire project since it shall be possible to improve on productivity and research about how the carbon-neutral community shall get developed. Integration of research and development knowledge gained from the consulting services shall improve knowledge improvement about the current techniques of perform carbon-neutral community development.
Figure 2
Improvement of environmental management is possible after constantly working with current carbon emission management processes. In the majority of homes, components that produce carbon dioxide emissions are hot water, cooling, appliances, heating, and electrical activities (Al-Temmamy & Abd-Rabo, 2019). All these are crucial in promoting quality wellbeing after Vitality Life performs expected consulting with environmentally conscious companies. Collaboration with Legal and General insurance company is another crucial activity to generate conformity to project development and handling of the best activities that shall suit the proposed carbon-neutral community’s standards. Vitality Life needs to constantly communicate with the insurance company as external structures to generate high standard constructions.
The funding partner needs to perform training since this procedure shall improve on quality developments and reliability when handling project activities. Working with standardized designs is crucial to promote quality handling of the supply chain environment of the project after constantly realizing how serve market expectations. It is crucial to constantly increase home development methods since they allow quality handling of residents’ activities after reducing cases of risks that would have occurred with limited project knowledge. Accessing information related to renewable energy sources, passive design techniques, and internal system activities are all crucial in improving sustainable home designs (Al-Temmamy & Abd-Rabo, 2019). There shall be accuracy in all home designs and connection to design expectations.
Project Participant Roles
Handling different project roles is crucial since it shall integrate current standards directed at improving responsibility sharing after each person learns about their roles and how to generate increase in project activities. A project manager is mandatory in the project and should a person conversant with carbon-neutral development techniques. This shall improve on productivity and quality handling of the project’s components after learning how the project plan shall connect to different aspects of internal activities like recruitment of experienced staff. Working with experienced persons shall create accurate project schedule management after learning how different persons generate reliable management of all internal activities.

Project team members shall be construction persons who possess unique knowledge that creates quality designs and a reliable method of handling project activities. It is mandatory to work with a construction manager, estimator, architect, supervisor, engineers, and construction workers. Employment of experienced persons is critical to ensure quality design as displayed in figure 2 above. All these persons are imperative in the project area to determine quality improvement in terms of the unique roles that each participant shall engage in. A construction manager is required to promote construction of diverse activities that shall get scheduled to handle different project activities for each house’s development. Architects are mandatory since they shall produce accurate designs that suit carbon-neutral homes.
An estimator is imperative since their role shall improve on quality labor, material, and cost improvement procedures. It shall be possible to handle diverse project activities that create accuracy at all times. A supervisor’s role is mandatory to facilitate quality improvement in terms of communication of different project professionals. This shall ensure all the proposed neighborhoods: Sheepfolds, Ayre Quay, Farringdon Row, and Vaux involve similar and high-quality designs. Engineers are mandatory in the project area since they improve on quality development which shall improve on cohesion of project activities and a reliable method of ensuring all project participants get provided with quality equipment for productivity. Construction workers are mandatory in the entire project since they shall ensure all simple activities for the construction area will get improved on.
Electricians are mandatory in the project since they shall generate accurate connections in all the houses that improve on sustainability designs (To W-M & Lee, 2018). Performing different wiring activities in the buildings is imperative especially since the carbon-neutral community design shall require quality arrangements. It is imperative to analyze how different project components shall get structured to handle construction program activities and conformity to the different areas involved in enhancing quality project activities. Supervision of all activities is mandatory since it shall allow constant construction access after facilitating quality enhancement of different project components. Facilitating different access options is crucial in the construction area to promote connection with residents’ expectations at all times.
Appropriate Procurement Arrangement
A suitable procurement arrangement for the project shall involve constant access procedures for different components that constantly generate reliable improvement in terms of project activities and the ability to manage project specifications. Analysis of different steps is crucial since it shall allow the procurement procedure to correlate to current standards of managing work output. Step one is the needs recognition procedure which shall facilitate coming up with an accurate plan for improving accessibility for different services and goods that shall promote quality project completion. Step one shall involve viewing different standardized designs from the contractors, engineers, and architects (Hoxha et al., 2020). This initial procedure shall improve on productive change improvement and access to resources.
Step two of the procurement arrangement is purchase requisition which is mandatory to fulfil team activities’ expectations. There must be constant management of works, service, and goods purchase shall be possible in this stage after working with the budget to improve on accuracy of all internal procedures. In this stage, collaboration with engineers and contractors with a background in carbon-neutral environments shall be the best method to improve on accuracy of all procedures. Funding activities shall get performed effectively after learning how to gain accurate insights about service improvement procedures. Step three of the arrangement is requisition review that is imperative to improve on accuracy of all internal process improvement procedures. Analysis of different project stakeholders shall be possible in this process to improve on access to feasible project activities.
Step three is the solicitation process that shall improve on quality access to project components and development of the carbon-neutral community. The solicitation process shall be contingent on the budget’s approval. It is imperative to constantly operate using these methods since they shall improve on quality access to project components and a reliable method allowing all experienced persons to learn about project activities. Working with vendors shall be required in this stage to create accurate project completion and team improvement procedures. Step four of the project shall involve Assessment and contract management which is imperative to promote access to accurate contract components. Ensuring all stakeholders sign contracts is crucial to allow project completion and a reliable method of validating project activities.

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The procurement arrangement shall involve order management as step five that creates better access to all equipment and paid services. This step is imperative to allow the project to function effectively and as expected by all participants. Step 6 of the project involves invoice management which is imperative to handle payments involved in the project. It is imperative to constantly perform payment management since these shall generate quality enhancement of project components and a reliable method of ensuring team activities operate in high standards and cohesion to project activities. The last step is record keeping to ensure accurate documentation after performing quality access and cohesion with project components.
Tendering Strategy
The tendering strategy involved in the Riverside Sunderland development area is imperative to constantly connect to construction project activities that can improve on productivity and quality access of resources. It is imperative to select a main supplier that is experienced in construction materials and services. This shall improve on productive access to construction objects after performing structure improvements in terms of team involvement and access to construction materials that produce sustainable homes. Use of selective tendering strategy is imperative since it shall allow accurate access to persons who are conversant with development of project components which serve client requirements. It is imperative to use the selective tendering method especially since the proposed construction handles carbon-neutral homes’ development.
Suppliers that have worked with home-construction projects before shall get selected to offer quality goods and services. It is imperative to operate with building designs that operate effectively and learn how to manage diverse project activities (Al-Temmamy & Abd-Rabo, 2019). It is imperative to perform consultation of each potential supplier and thus create quality management of their activities. This shall improve on accessibility of contract procedures after learning how the suppliers shall handle project activities and create reliable improvement in terms of project components. There shall be no need to perform pre-qualification procedures since this may affect quality access of the tendering procedures. Suppliers shall prepare tenders based on quality access to the project’s components.
Supply Chain Management and Cost Saving for Construction and Design Costs
The Riverside Sunderland project area shall operate in quality standards after working with different environmentally friendly operations that generate quality access to home improvement methods. It shall be possible to access project equipment that are so many and should connect to sustainable home development. Sunderland City Council already operates using quality standards that improve on productivity and cohesion to construction constraints. It is imperative to operate using cost saving procedures which connect to sustainable home development and the best method of allowing construction activities to get perform in conformity to current standards for carbon-neutral home development. Supply chain management is imperative since it shall connect to quality resource allocation and movement of construction materials.
The image displays how zero energy construction methods get performed.

(Ürge-Vorsatz, et al., 2020).
Using a cost-efficient transport process is mandatory since there shall be very any construction materials all structured to promote feasible project activities. Storage and obtaining of the products are also crucial to constantly improve on quality access of the construction project’s activities and reliable connection to cost enhancement procedures. Selection of cheap materials is not the only direct method of promoting productivity since it is imperative to select suppliers who are conversant with the area and can provide high-quality goods and services (Amiri et al., 2020). It is imperative to perform analysis of the entire project to determine areas where it can be risky and expensive to operate. Program management is mandatory to ensure quality access to innovative products and a reliable technique of dealing with the local suppliers.
There should be constant relationship development for supply chain procedures in the project after accessing knowledge from different fields and using the outcome to connect to substantial environmental standards. The proposed 15% target for cost reduction is feasible and shall allow the project to get provided with quality components. Involvement of the cost reducing process is crucial to allow constant access to program certainty after accessing project components and using the outcome to allow procurement of imperative project services and goods.

Conclusion and Recommendations
The Riverside Sunderland project is accurate and involves diverse components structured to improve on productive access to project activities. It is possible to constantly access feasible project activities and working with conversant persons after performing research and using the insight gotten to create better procurement report components. The budget allocation process already promotes quality access to internal project activities that improve on access to accurate management and a reliable method of producing high-standard structures.

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Appendix
Table 1-Construction Budget
Description Actual Cost Estimated Cost Variance
MAIN REQUIERMENTS
Plans $ 6000 $ 6500 $ 500
Plan review $ 6000 $ 7000 $ 1000
Permits: environmental, building, zoning $ 7000 $ 7500 $ 500
Survey $ 5000 $ 5500 $ 500
Engineering fees $ 6000 $ 5500 $ -500
Administrative costs $ 6000 $ 6500 $ 500
Financing costs $ 6000 $ 6500 $ 500
Legal fees $ 6000 $ 5500 $ -500
Subtotal $ 48000 $ 50500 $ 2500
SITE PREP
Dumpster and removal $ 9000 $ 8500 $ -500
Dust control $ 6000 $ 5500 $ -500
Demolition $ 6000 $ 5500 $ -500
Job-site access $ 6000 $ 6000 0
Job-site security $ 4000 $ 3500 $ -500
Equipment rental $ 5000 $ 5000 0
Jacking & shoring $ 6000 $ 8000 $ 2000
Storage $ 6000 $ 7000 $ 1000
Subtotal $ 48000 $ 49000 $ 1000
ON-SITE WATER/SEWAGE
Soil tests $ 7000 $ 6500 $ -500
Septic System Design $ 7000 $ 6500 $ -500
Septic system permits and inspection $ 10000 $ 12000 $ 2000
Subtotal $ 24000 $ 25000 $ 1000
ZERO CARBON ARCHITECTURE
Passive and active design solution $ 10000 $ 10000 0
Renewable energy supply $ 10000 $ 12000 $ 2000
Carbon offsetting measures $ 10000 $ 11000 $ 1000
Lighting and equipment $ 10000 $ 13000 $ 3000
Subtotal $ 40000 $ 46000 $ 6000

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Glossary
Administrative costs: amount of money required to ensure a business functions in expected capacities
Procurement: the procedure involved in obtaining materials and services for
a
particular goal
Supply chain: a connection of different activities that can create production of a project
Work and service: involves different activities that must get performed to improve a business environment’s activities

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Riverside Sunderland Project Procurement Report

W20051791 is the student number.

Professor’s Name: Dr. Victor Samwinga

Course Title: Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Executive Summary

Riverside Sunderland requires a feasible procurement report that shall provide proper insights related to project components and the crucial internal activities directed at building advance carbon-neutral homes. Analysis of energy efficiency is crucial since the current advanced environment operates in methods that cause a lot of environmental pollution. It is imperative to create accurate connection to project activities since this shall improve on feasible project activities that create accuracy at all times and promote delivery of a project’s vision components. Sunderland City Council has proposed to operate using current carbon-neutral home management processes which improve on concurrency with project management processes (Pomponi & Amico,

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