| 1. Company Culture: | | 1. BIM is a set of policies and procedures that offer an stylized way that a company may operate. | | 2. Each company has its own unique culture that will vary policies and procedures to match different objectives. |
| 2. Contracts: | | 1. BIM has a policy that all work shall be quoted with a fixed price to be agreed with the client before any work is started and a client invoice shall be a replica of a client quotation. | | 2. A company may begin work before all work packages have an agreed fixed price with an expectation the the client will agree to reasonable price after the work is done. | | BIM POLICY: | | 1. Client provides a request for quotation (FRQ). | | 2. Company provide a quotation as a set of priced work packages - price to client = labour (to subcontractors) + materials (to suppliers). | | 3. Client agrees with quotation and issues a purchase order for the quoted price with a payment schedule. | | 4. Company subcontracts supplies to suppliers with schedule of deliveries. | | 5. Company subcontracts labour to subcontractors and requires photographic evidence of work done. | | 6. Client signs off each work package when it is complete and correct. | | 7. Company invoices the client for each signed off work package - monthly. | | 8. Company pays the supplier for delivered supplies - monthly. | | 9. Company pays the subcontractor for each signed off work package - monthly. |
| 3. Subcontractors: | | 1. BIM has a policy that each work package has a fixed price for labour that is paid to the subcontractor when the work package is complete and correct - signed off with photographic evidence. | | 2. A company may pay a subcontractor to be onsite with no productivity target and scant evidence of when who did what. | | 3. A company may even pay a subcontractor for travel time, travel mileage and subsistence as if they were an employee. | | 4. A company may even pay a subcontractor for pension, holiday time, maternity/paternity time and sickness time as if they were and employee. | | BIM POLICY: | | 1. Subcontractors with the correct skills and experience exist to be subcontracted for a fixed amount to complete a well defined work package - paid by the job. | | 2. Employees are paid by the month and supervised by the hour to do a role that can be supervised and earn enough to pay the employee and their supervisor, with all an employees overheads. |
| 4. Assets: | | 1. BIM has a policy that the very best, services, maintained, certified and most productive equipment shall be contract hired to be used with any project. | | 2. A company may choose to buy equipment as a capital expense to be written off over four or more years, to rent secure storage space for such equipment, so insure equipment against loss and theft and to pay for all maintenance, servicing and certificates. | | 3. A company may choose to make do with the equipment it has in stock rather than hire the most effective equipment for the project, even if the make do equipment takes longer. | | 4. A company may choose to use old, damaged and second hand equipment on a project rather that contract hire the very best productive equipment. | | BIM POLICY: | | 1. Assets as equipment are a capital cost and liability to the company - claims can be made against a company with assets. | | 2. Only the very best equipment must be contract hired as a cost the project that is paid for by the client. | | 3. Contract hired equipment is correctly maintained and serviced with the correct documentation and user guides. | | 4. The company with no assets has the flexibility to rapidly change strategic direction to take up a new business opportunity. |
| Document Control. | | 1. Document Title: Company Culture. | | 2. Description: Company Culture, policies and guidelines. | | 3. Keywords: Company Culture, policies and guidelines. | | 4. Privacy: Shared with approved people for the benefit of humanity. This is not financial or legal advice. | | 5. Edition: 1.4. | | 6. Issued: 14 May 2019. |
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