Kier has become the latest contractor to announce its support for the Builder's Profile in a move which will further reduce duplication amongst existing pre-qualification systems.

The Builder's Profile is an online service enabling companies to submit the same pre-qualification information to different contractors and clients without filling in a multitude of questionnaires.

For Kier, signing up to the Builder's Profile means its different regional divisions can accept pre-qualification information from any sub-contractor using the service whatever area of the country they are working in - instead of sending paper questionnaires.

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The Builder's Profile provides contractors with answers to all common pre-qualification questions at the touch of a button in whatever format they require, saving them the expensive and time consuming task of extracting the information from paper questionnaires.

A Kier spokesman explained why they are happy to use the Builder's Profile: "Here at Kier we are committed to working in partnership with our supply chain and can see that, by accepting the information we require for our pre-qualification procedure from the Builder’s Profile, we will become more efficient by creating a more streamlined process for our sub-contractors and for Kier."

(GK/JM)