Private companies, insurance companies included can specify who ever they like to do work and they can put whatever conditions they wish on the work.
It is only the public sector that cannot discriminate, councils, prison service, NHS etc.
However, they can for example require examples of competence and references and this can be waived by PQ criteria, one of which can be membership of say for example an electrical assessment scheme which assesses the tendering party in the area of works that they are tendering for, which would be commercial, even if it were council houses, though in this case they would probably require domestic & commercial pre assessment.
It is not discrimination or illegal for NFU to specify who they require to undertake the works, after all they are taking on the risk, and are thus minimising their risk.
This however could give some leverage by using NFU if there were contractual or quality issues with the works?
It is only the public sector that cannot discriminate, councils, prison service, NHS etc.
However, they can for example require examples of competence and references and this can be waived by PQ criteria, one of which can be membership of say for example an electrical assessment scheme which assesses the tendering party in the area of works that they are tendering for, which would be commercial, even if it were council houses, though in this case they would probably require domestic & commercial pre assessment.
It is not discrimination or illegal for NFU to specify who they require to undertake the works, after all they are taking on the risk, and are thus minimising their risk.
This however could give some leverage by using NFU if there were contractual or quality issues with the works?
