It supports the selection of professionals, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers for project work, logs details of the tenders received, provides scoring mechanisms to support supplier pre-qualification and bid evaluation as well as recording details of the successful tender when an order is placed.

Contrack has a powerful performance monitoring, measurement and benchmarking facility. User performance, their subcontractors and suppliers, their clients or any relevant party can be scored at project, package and tender level.

The new industry wide Key Performance Indicators identified by the DETR sponsored Construction Best Practice Programme are fully supported in addition to comparisons with external benchmark data. In addition to industry benchmarks the user can also configure their own key performance indicators (KPI's), whatever they may be.

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Contrack is highly integrated, easily configurable, simple to use, and provides a wealth of operational and management information, which can be customised to meet the exact needs of the user. Overall it provides the tools necessary to manage strategic supplier relationships, to measure the effectiveness of subcontractors/suppliers and supports the drive for improvement in subcontractor/supplier performance over time.<a href=" #top">

Companies
Contrack maintains a comprehensive register of companies. It records the basic details of each company (address, phone numbers, web site etc) and allows companies to be categorised for reporting and selection purposes. Parent company information can be recorded, with reporting provided at company or parent level.

Against each company the system lists known contacts and details of any projects with which a company is involved. Companies can be allocated automatically to members of the sales force.

Contrack also holds details of a company's capability and capacity. The system includes facilities to select companies for tender lists and project work, by specifying capability and capacity criteria. Other information recorded on a company includes:

Services offered, types of project work undertaken

Coverage, areas in which work is undertaken

Quality Assurance scheme details

Insurance details

Capacity, numbers of staff employed, minimum and maximum project values.

Contacts
Information is held on the contacts at each of the companies on the system.

It records the basic details of each contact (personal address, phone numbers, email address etc) and allows them to be categorised for reporting and selection purposes such as mail shots (e.g. distributing newsletters, inviting attendance at functions, Christmas card lists).

Contacts can also be assigned to staff members if required.

Contrack also shows details of the projects and packages in which a contact has had an involvement and the responses a contact has made to promotion events.

Projects
Contrack records the required details of all existing and prospective projects and tracks the progress of a project throughout its life.

It can hold a complete breakdown of the works packages that comprise a project. Companies such as the client, the main contractor and members of the professional team can be linked to projects, and subcontractors, suppliers etc. to individual packages as appropriate.

Each project can be categorised by type, contract form, status etc., with these categories forming the basis for analysis. In addition to the basic details of a project; name, location, value etc, Contrack lists any companies with influence over the project; the client, the architect, the main contractor or construction manager and so on, including details on the individuals working on the project as appropriate.