Well I have had a good outcome on the constructionline and SSIP with my major client. I took my case to the Director and he agreed with me.
The problem with these things is that the Board make a policy decision to adopt relevant schemes to enable them to show due diligence and to support their business. In this case it was schemes for building contractors. The admin is then delegated to an administrator who issues the contractor and supplier list to Constructionline and SSIP. The administrator does not understand the scope and extent of the scheme so just sends details of all suppliers and contractors, whether associated with construction or not.
For their part Constructionline and SSIP dont know who does what so send out their compulsory "Join or else" letter to all the unfortunate recipients on the list without regard to their trade or services provided, and of course they have a vested interest in putting as many as possible through without regard to whether its relevant or not.
Constructionline were very understanding about this and were up front with me but the companies I rang about the SSIP scheme were not interested in hearing my point of view. Very much a case of "Nothing to do with us, stop wingeing send us your fee and comply or you will not get any more business from the client".
The outcome is that this client are now filtering their lists and re-issuing to the schemes. And my services, quite rightly will not fall under the scheme.
So its worth standing your ground on this.
