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Public alignment statement

UPS-AS-002 - Construction Playbook Alignment Statement

Episodic ICCE recognises The Construction Playbook as a significant public-sector construction procurement, commercial-management and delivery reference point. The Playbook sets expectations for better public works planning, market engagement, digital information, supply-chain collaboration, outcome-based delivery, fair payment, risk allocation, supplier resilience, social value, health and wellbeing, sustainability and audit-ready contract management.

Those expectations are practical and evidence-led. For temporary labour activity, they create a need for reliable records showing which project, programme, framework, package or contract the activity relates to; which counterparty and worker route was used; what hours, payroll, statutory, payment and reconciliation outcomes arose; where exceptions, corrections, disputes, continuity issues or limitations occurred; and what evidence can be reviewed by authorised procurement, commercial, contract-management, responsible-procurement, social-value and audit stakeholders.

ICCE aligns with those expectations as a Collaborative Procurement-Support Provider for ICCE-routed temporary-labour activity. It supports authorised buyers, procurement platforms, framework providers, contractors, suppliers, commercial teams, contract managers, social-value functions, responsible-procurement functions and auditors by preserving controlled labour-chain evidence relevant to engagement route, worker acceptance, employment route, hours, payroll, statutory outcomes, payment, reconciliation, counterparty attribution, supply-chain visibility, contract-selected performance metrics, risk, exception, correction, continuity and audit lineage. ICCE does not procure public works, select delivery models, evaluate bids, allocate contractual risk, create Should Cost Models, determine construction quality, provide BIM or asset information, evidence net-zero performance, certify social value, or establish Construction Playbook compliance.

Episodic maintains a continued alignment commitment by reviewing this statement where The Construction Playbook, its 14 key-policy population, cross-cutting priorities, Commercial Playbooks policy-note context, procurement-support reporting requirements or ICCE-routed evidence controls are amended, replaced, superseded or materially clarified.

Alignment table

Expectation Relevant sources ICCE enforced alignment ICCE evidence / output
Commercial pipeline and external context discipline Key Policy 1 - Commercial Pipelines; Key Policy 3 - Portfolios and Longer-Term Contracting ICCE links realised ICCE-routed labour activity to authorised project, programme, framework, package or contract context while keeping pipeline, forecast and future-demand claims external Procurement-context linkage, realised labour-activity report, period comparison, coverage statement, unsupported future-demand statement
Market health, capability and labour-chain resilience evidence Key Policy 2 - Market Health and Capability Assessments ICCE preserves selected counterparty, participation, capacity, labour-route, exception and continuity evidence capable of informing externally owned market and capability review Counterparty record, activation state, labour-throughput evidence, capacity condition, disruption evidence, limitation statement
Harmonised and digital labour information Key Policy 4 - Harmonise, Digitise and Rationalise Demand; Key Policy 5 - Further Embed Digital Technologies ICCE provides consistent digital labour records, governed source states, permissioned views and reproducible evidence for ICCE-routed temporary-labour activity Engagement-route evidence, worker record, hours record, payroll and payment lineage, audit and reproducibility pack
Early supply-chain involvement and responsible supply-chain visibility Key Policy 6 - Early Supply Chain Involvement ICCE preserves authorised counterparty, agency, worker, route and activity evidence that can support buyer-led supply-chain engagement and continuing review Responsible-supply-chain visibility pack, counterparty reference, agency and worker-route evidence, exception and remediation record
Outcome-based reporting and buyer-defined targets Key Policy 7 - Outcome-Based Approach ICCE produces contract-scoped labour and worker-outcome evidence against externally authorised criteria and targets, without determining whole-life value or contract compliance Procurement-support performance summary, contract KPI pack, target-comparison output, coverage and correction record
Benchmarking and labour-cost evidence Key Policy 8 - Benchmarking and Should Cost Models ICCE preserves attributable labour-cost and performance evidence that may inform an externally owned benchmark or Should Cost Model, without becoming a whole-life construction cost model Worker remuneration, statutory employer-cost evidence, platform-fee separation, labour-throughput report, reproducibility evidence
Delivery-model boundary Key Policy 9 - Delivery Model Assessments ICCE preserves classification-safe information about its temporary-labour route while keeping delivery-model assessment and route-to-market selection outside ICCE authority Engagement-route evidence pack, role-boundary statement, unsupported delivery-model statement
Effective contracting and contract-management evidence Key Policy 10 - Effective Contracting ICCE provides shared, permissioned labour evidence, contract-scoped reporting, dispute, correction, exception and audit records capable of supporting external contract management KPI evidence, worker outcome evidence, dispute and correction record, exception pack, audit lineage pack
Risk allocation and collaborative risk management support Key Policy 11 - Risk Allocation ICCE preserves attributable evidence of validation failures, blocked states, disputes, payment exceptions, capacity conditions, disruption and remediation without allocating contractual risk Risk chronology, exception and remediation pack, continuity visibility pack, escalation record, external decision reference
Payment, pricing and labour-economic transparency Key Policy 12 - Payment Mechanism and Pricing Approach ICCE keeps worker remuneration, statutory employer costs, platform fees, payment instruction, execution response and reconciliation separately attributable while distinguishing worker payroll from supplier invoice payment Labour-economic evidence, worker-payment record, payment reconciliation, unsupported supplier-prompt-payment statement
Supplier financial standing and resolution-planning evidence Key Policy 13 - Assessing the Economic and Financial Standing of Suppliers; Key Policy 14 - Resolution Planning ICCE contributes selected counterparty, participation, restriction, capacity, shortfall, deterioration and continuity evidence to externally governed supplier assessment and resolution planning Counterparty identity record, participation status, financial-resilience evidence, shortfall record, continuity and resolution-support evidence
Health, safety and wellbeing boundary Cross-cutting priority - Health, Safety and Wellbeing ICCE preserves selected worker, engagement, hours, grievance, dispute and labour-process evidence while keeping construction health, safety, competence and building-safety compliance external Worker and labour-process evidence, grievance or dispute record, external competence reference where supplied, limitation statement
Net zero and sustainability boundary Cross-cutting priority - Net Zero Carbon and Sustainability ICCE maintains explicit out-of-scope treatment for carbon, biodiversity, materials, waste, energy and environmental performance unless separately governed external environmental data is supplied Unsupported environmental-performance statement, external-data dependency record, limitation and scope statement
Social-value and fair-work evidence Cross-cutting priority - Social Value; Key Policies 7, 10 and 12 ICCE preserves PAYE route, worker acceptance, pay, payment, challenge, correction, counterparty attribution and contract-scoped labour evidence relevant to buyer-defined social-value commitments Worker outcome evidence pack, fair-work-relevant evidence, payroll artefact, payment record, correction history, social-value limitation statement

Sources covered

Principal source

Current policy-note context assessed

Key-policy population covered

Cross-cutting priorities covered

Document control

Construction Playbook Alignment Statement

Document code
UPS-AS-002

Document title
Construction Playbook Alignment Statement

Version
2.1

Status
Public alignment statement

Internal alignment authority
UPS-002, version 1.0

External alignment category
Public-works procurement, delivery and contract-management evidence support

Source covered
The Construction Playbook, September 2022 edition

Source population covered
14 key policies, three cross-cutting priorities and current Commercial Playbooks policy-note context assessed in UPS-002

Publication date
10 July 2026

Revision basis
Shortened public-facing opening statement; alignment table retained from version 2.0; sources and document control moved to final page structure

Publisher
Augscape Research & Development Limited, trading through the Episodic ICCE documentation surface.

Company number
12996074

Website
episodic.co.uk

Document status
Public alignment statement · 2.1

Publication date
10 July 2026

Use boundary
General information only. Not legal, tax, financial, insurance, employment or investment advice.