Question

In the construction industry ____________ is a very general term which refers to organisations contracted as part of the delivery of a built asset.

(a) transporter

(b) supplier

(c) organisation

(d) industry

The question was asked in an interview.

My doubt stems from Schedule of Rates for Different Used Material topic in portion Schedule of Rates Metric and F.B of Civil Engineering Drawing

Answer 1

Right option is (b) supplier

The best explanation: Traditionally, suppliers might have been considered to be organisations contracted to provide physical supplies such as goods, materials, plant, and so on, however, its use is now much broader and PAS 1192-2 defines a supplier as any ‘provider of services or goods either directly to the employer or to another supplier in a supply chain’. The ‘supply chain’ is the interconnected hierarchy of suppliers.