I have written this brief guide to help community and voluntary organisations considering the employment of a consultant. It has been written based on experience on both sides of the fence—as a senior officer in local government responsible for running numerous consultancy contracts and as a self employed consultant. The guide is not intended to deal with employment of builders or similar contractors.
Brief outline of contents follows:
Preliminaries
What is the project?
Why are you considering use of
consultants?
Project Brief
Identification of consultants
Selection of consultants
The full document – still only two pages can be downloaded (in Acrobat .pdf) format from here
Let me know if you find it useful.