Government clients renege on fair payment standard

摘要

The future of a government plan to improve payment standards in construction has been thrown into doubt as it emerged that three of the biggest public sector clients - including the Olympic Delivery Authority - are not enforcing it. The government's Construction Commitments, published by the Strategic Forum in June and hailed as the successor to the Egan report, say departments should work only with contractors that pay their suppliers within 30 days.