28 June 2004 - New guidance on employers' liability compulsory insurance in public sector contract
New guidance published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will help public sector procurement heads ensure that contractors and sub-contractors have complied with Employers’ Liability Compulsory Insurance (ELCI).
The guidance states that the contractor must hold insurance of at least £5 million and that contracting authorities should ask to see the ELCI policy and certificate. The guidance has been written jointly by DWP and the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and is available on the OGC website.
The DWP is writing to heads of procurement to let them know about the website and also to ask them to monitor and evaluate the new guidance and provide a short report. This will be used in a review of its take-up and operation in October 2004.
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[an error occurred while processing this directive]- The new guidance can be viewed at
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?id=402
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/sdtkdev/new_content/decisionmap/OGCGuidance.pdf (page 24)
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?id=402 - A full copy of the Review of Employers' Liability Compulsory Insurance Second Stage Report is available on the DWP website http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/dwp/2003/elci/dwp_employers_review04-12-2003.pdf (131KB)
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