NICEIC renewal assessment debacle! Discussion ThreadNICEIC renewal assessment debacle! Electrical Advice
Hi All,
I recently had my NICEIC renewal assessment.
We are a two man band. We only carry out small local work and we are approved contractors & domestic installers.
We have always (for the last 17 years at least!) had a half day assessment from the NICEIC.
The freelance assessor they sent this year spent 3 Hours in my office!
He spent most of that tip tapping his tiny tablet -populating his report and counting the number of certificates on our Easycert software (Why?)
Very little constructive chat, no interest in seeing sites or assessing me as a QS.
After 3 hours (not quite half a day...?) he announced he was off to another assessment and would look at our sites etc. in a second additional half day assessment.
After he left, I discovered that this additional half day would cost £415.00 !! 😱 (only £130.00+VAT shy of the entire annual membership!)
Having read his interim report since, he blames the absence of a detailed list of electrical work for his time in the office.
Although the Easycert 'open certificates' screen shows all work carried out, together with address/cert number/cert type/dates, what more can he need? I even offered to print off or email him this list and/or our own in house works checklists off for him. He declined.
I have contacted him directly initially to ask for justification. He said rather abruptly "ring customer services if you have a complaint".
I also asked him to reply to a follow up email I sent him, he said he doesn't have time to reply to emails....
Aside from all that, this guy was not at all personable. He was awkward, overly formal did not communicate his assessment to me very well at all.
He is renowned with contractors in my local area for being like this and imposing second half day assessments.
My assumption is that, being freelance, he gets paid per assessment so... well, I'll let you fill in the spaces.
He asked me to name and shame other contractors poor work that I had followed and also told me a story about a...
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Hi All,
I recently had my NICEIC renewal assessment.
We are a two man band. We only carry out small local work and we are approved contractors & domestic installers.
We have always (for the last 17 years at least!) had a half day assessment from the NICEIC.
The freelance assessor they sent this year spent 3 Hours in my office!
He spent most of that tip tapping his tiny tablet -populating his report and counting the number of certificates on our Easycert software (Why?)
Very little constructive chat, no interest in seeing sites or assessing me as a QS.
After 3 hours (not quite half a day...?) he announced he was off to another assessment and would look at our sites etc. in a second additional half day assessment.
After he left, I discovered that this additional half day would cost £415.00 !! 😱 (only £130.00+VAT shy of the entire annual membership!)
Having read his interim report since, he blames the absence of a detailed list of electrical work for his time in the office.
Although the Easycert 'open certificates' screen shows all work carried out, together with address/cert number/cert type/dates, what more can he need? I even offered to print off or email him this list and/or our own in house works checklists off for him. He declined.
I have contacted him directly initially to ask for justification. He said rather abruptly "ring customer services if you have a complaint".
I also asked him to reply to a follow up email I sent him, he said he doesn't have time to reply to emails....
Aside from all that, this guy was not at all personable. He was awkward, overly formal did not communicate his assessment to me very well at all.
He is renowned with contractors in my local area for being like this and imposing second half day assessments.
My assumption is that, being freelance, he gets paid per assessment so... well, I'll let you fill in the spaces.
He asked me to name and shame other contractors poor work that I had followed and also told me a story about a...
Read more
NICEIC renewal assessment debacle! for the original thread on Electricians Forums
