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Posted By Stewart Dean
Is there anyone who knows what the size of a contractor has to be before putting into a category of small, medium or large. I am setting up a vetting system for contractors and would find it usefull to have some way of saying they are a large contractor and they are a small contractor for example.
Would appreciate any advice or experience anyone has had in doing this kind of thing.
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Posted By SarahD
If its any help, we use a two tier system, based on the financial size of contract that contractor is allowed to work on, rather than the size of contractor. This is decided by our finance people after checks on the company. This is split below £10,000 and above £10,000, which is also our value that decides if the work can be let by quotes for work or full tenders.
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Posted By Oliver Whitefield
We work on the basis that no one contract should exceed one third of the companies annual turnover.
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Posted By Michael Moore Stewart, The basic definition I was taught was 0-49 Employees = Small 50-249 Employees = Medium >250 = Large (EC SME definitions) A more in depth description is available at http://www.knowledgenorthwest.com/definition.htmThis gives financial criteria etc. Hope this is what you were after, Mick
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Posted By Geoff Burt
Stewart
Purely out of interest, is there a H&S reason for classifying them as large, medium or small?
Geoff
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Posted By Stewart Dean
Not really a h&s reason, however the health and safety questionnaire that I have developed is scored. This means that each contractor that applies must achieve a particular score before 'passing' and being put on the standing list. For this reason, obviously larger contractors will be able to achieve a higher score due to CDM, H&S policy etc to a smaller contractor with say 1 or 2 employees. A small contractor will therefore not be required to score as highly as a larger contractor.
Hope this makes sense!
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Posted By Ken Taylor
I would keep it to contract sizes/values/turnover rather than employee numbers. Many well-known and considered large construction companies have very few actual employees these days - preferring to operate through sub-contractors, etc.
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