Prodigious procurement management on robbington groups construction project in England

Robbington leisure place is a dynamic leisure group that is constantly seeking to expand its business forward. They are one of the largest operators of horseracing; they stage 20 percent of all racing fixtures held each year. Robbington is proposing to make significant improvements to their flagship racecourse at Hamchester to meet the St Dredger Stake scheduled for mid - September 2010. The improvement includes construction of grandstand, an exhibition centre, and construction of a new hotel facility and casino. This paper deals with a critical analysis and evaluation of this proposed Robbington Racecourse project from design to construction. The report started with the strategy briefing of Robbington's Trust, to the stakeholder management and appraisal of procurement system so as to select the best route that will deliver the project at the stipulated time. Series of procurement method were carefully considered, ranging from Traditional method to Management Contracting. Traditional method would have been suitable for either phase of the project. But because the detailed design must be completed before construction work commences on site which may cause a longer project completion and time is paramount in the project but Design and Build method will allow early commencement of construction work on phase one due to the overlapping of design and construction work which makes the whole project time reduced. Management contracting method will also allow early commencement of work at the phase two and due to the highly innovative hotel facility and some level of complexity, which will be managed by the skilled management team. After careful consideration and assessment of Robbington's objectives and suggestion from two (2) procurement path decision chart after (Bennett and Grice) and (Skitmore and Marsden) for phase one and phase two, the Design and Build method was adjudged the best procurement option for phase one and Management Contracting method for phase two.