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Scenario
Background
You are working for a property consultancy firm.
Your department specialises in providing construction and procurement advice to a number of commercial organisations.
Your team is being asked to provide advice to a client who is an experienced high-end residential property conversion developer but a novice commercial property developer.
Scenario
Your manager at the property consultancy firm you are working for has received an e-mail from Hugh Fee, of Old, Fash and Firm, the firm that manages the business affairs of Oliver Gark, a client for who your firm is engaged as project managers for the construction of an industrial estate in Southern England. The works comprise the construction of six steel framed and clad buildings and associated hard and soft landscaping.
The e-mail reads as follows:
As you know, our mutual client Oliver Gark is taking a keen interest in the successful delivery of this project. He is very concerned that you have advised that the design practice he favours (the practice he uses to design and oversee converting barns and other agricultural buildings into luxury holiday homes), is not suitable for this project.
He has asked me to look into the matter and to find out more information from you as to:
Why you believe this firm is not suitable; and
How you would go about satisfying him that the firms invited to tender for the design of the scheme will be the most suitable of those interested in carrying out the services or works.
Please let me have the answers to these questions as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely
Hugh Fee
Task
Your manager has asked you to draft a reply for him to send to Hugh Fee.
