Also no indication up till now of the decommissioning of old stuff is required by either the legislation or standard and should they be part of the commissioning of new system or not? this is the heart of my enquiry
cost aside. IMO you should never leave old call points on a a site that has been upgraded. I have heard of a site near me where the old was left and they had a fire.
The Staff broke the glass on an old mcp and nothing happened.They had to run round the whole site and manually evacuate everyone.
At the very least list removal as an optional extra on your quote that way if your competitors don't price for it you are still pricing for the same work.
You then don't have any come back if you win the tender and at the end you are asked to remove the old stuff.
or state that your price does not include removal of old.
Any sensible person with three quotes on their desk will then ask the other two if theirs includes removal..
Graeme; all what you said is fine. But;
I am not talking about commissioning new site, that would come to what you have suggested, I am talking about taking over new site for maintenance with many systems live in addition to stuff of old dead system still fitted throughout...
In what legal basis should we convince the customer to accept the decommissioning of old stuff, but if there is no legal requirement either by the legislation or the standard please let me know
In that case negotiation with the customer would be on a different basis
