Understanding the Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF)
The Capital Works Management Framework governs how public bodies in Ireland procure works and construction-related services, and it is a large body of documentation to navigate under time pressure. This two-session course works through the framework in the order a project actually meets it: finding the right documents, appointing a design team, running the competition, and managing delivery under a Public Works Contract. Both sessions cover works and construction-related services together, and the framework's recent form changes are dealt with directly rather than left to be discovered later.
What's covered
Finding your way around the framework
- ✓Navigating the CWMF website
- ✓Contract stages overview
- ✓Framework benefits
Appointing the design team
- ✓Conditions of Engagement (CoE) and the key documents
- ✓Design team composition
- ✓Qualification and award criteria
- ✓The Suitability Assessment Questionnaire
Running the competition
- ✓Instructions to Tender (ITT), Form of Tender (FoT) and the contracts
- ✓Tender assessment and the quality/price ratio
Public Works Contracts and delivery
- ✓Public Works Contracts (PWC) overview
- ✓Composition of works teams — contractors, specialists and subcontractors
- ✓Performance management and SLAs
Recent form updates
- ✓New collateral warranties
- ✓Arbitration rules
- ✓Model forms amendments
- ✓Price variation rebase (September 2024)
- ✓The new fee adjustment mechanism
- ✓Questions, discussion and AOB
What you'll take away
- ✓Locate the right CWMF document for the stage you're at, without trawling the website
- ✓Assemble a design team appointment — Conditions of Engagement, suitability assessment and award criteria
- ✓Set and apply a defensible quality/price ratio at tender assessment
- ✓Account for the recent form changes, including the September 2024 price variation rebase and the new fee adjustment mechanism
Who it's for
Anyone involved in buying in a public body — procurement officers, project managers, technical, finance and corporate services staff in local authorities, ETBs, government departments and agencies.
Registrations are reviewed to keep this course public-sector only.
Before you register
- ✓If you can't attend, a colleague can take your place — let us know in advance and we'll update the registration.
- ✓Cancel at least 24 hours before the session and you'll receive a full refund. Cancellations inside 24 hours aren't refunded, though a colleague is welcome to take the place instead.
- ✓Where a course runs over two sessions, one registration covers both and the full fee applies — attending only one session doesn't reduce it.
- ✓A certificate of attendance is available on request.
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