Where the minimisation of climate change risks relating to services or works contracts, or resilience of essential supplies, is a key issue within the contract, performance indicators need to be developed and included as standing items in regular contract review meetings. These may include the provision of evidence from prevailing supply chain partners.
Quantifying the benefits of the contractual requirement may not always be possible and establishing a baseline and identifying relevant data may be easier in some contracts than others. In this case it is relevant to determine qualitative outcomes.
Where contract conditions include a specific climate change adaptation requirement it must be considered whether this is core to the contract or a secondary issue, as any remedy for breach of performance may be difficult to quantify.
Where standard contract forms are being used e.g. NEC, the specification clauses must be reviewed to align to the correct contract form
At contract award/ mobilisation there is always the opportunity to reach a voluntary agreement with the supplier that they will work with you to deliver agreed climate change adaptation or resilience outcomes that can be captured as a contract commitment.
Ongoing improvement and innovation can be built into the management of the contract to further develop required products and services. See the Procurement Journey Contract and Supplier Management details. Within Annex 3 are examples of contract management requirements that may be relevant within procurements.
