RIBA Publishes ‘Ten Principles For Procuring Better Outcomes'

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has recently published 'Ten Principles for Procuring Better Outcomes', developed it says 'to help decision-makers in public client organisations get the best possible outcomes when they procure architectural services.'

While much of the guidance is sound, RIBA takes the opportunity to promote its own form of consultant appointment. This advice may protect the architect at the expense of the client and so legal advice is advisable. To see the complete list of the ten Principles, please click here.

The Guidance

RIBA's main message is that 'there are a range of different procedures that can be used to procure design services suited to different project outcomes.' This statement is uncontroversial and the principles themselves are all relatively sensible in isolation.