GQA Qualifications Limited · RQF Level 6
GQA Level 6 NVQ Diploma In Construction Contracting Operations Management V2
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits115
- Guided learning510 hours
- Units in this qualification19
Awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This Level 6 NVQ Diploma is for construction professionals in contracting operations management roles. It allows candidates to demonstrate competence in areas such as preparing valuations, developing work programmes, establishing property conditions, and controlling contract work.
These are the units GQA Qualifications Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Controlling contract work in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Control contract work against agreed contract quality standards and guidance
- Maintain contract and statutory compliance
Coordinating project designs in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and coordinate the methods for preparing initial project designs, ensuring alignment with project requirements
- Select appropriate materials, components, and systems for project designs, considering factors such as cost, performance, and sustainability
- Analyse, select, and present detailed design solutions, ensuring they meet project specifications and client expectations
Developing a procurement plan and optimising supplier and service provider performance in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse supply requirements for a specific project or organisation
- Develop a detailed procurement plan to meet identified supply needs
- Monitor the implementation of the procurement plan and make necessary adjustments
- Optimise the performance of suppliers and service providers through effective management techniques
Developing a programme of works and a procurement programme in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a comprehensive programme of works, taking into account project requirements, resources, and timelines.
- Develop a detailed procurement programme, outlining the process for sourcing and acquiring necessary materials and services.
Developing and maintaining working relationships in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and maintain positive and productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Practice in an ethical manner, adhering to professional standards and organisational guidelines
Establishing the condition of property in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Establish the condition of property in the workplace.
Evaluating enquiries and submitting tenders in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate tender enquiry documentation to determine project feasibility and identify key requirements
- Finalise and submit a tender that is competitive, compliant and accurately reflects project costs and timelines
Evaluating work methods and developing a programme of works in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate different work methods applicable to the workplace
- Select appropriate work methods based on evaluation criteria
- Develop a comprehensive programme of works, considering all relevant factors
Identifying, assessing and evaluating project requirements in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify, assess and agree project requirements and stakeholder preferences to establish clear project objectives
- Identify, assess and evaluate resource procurement factors to ensure efficient and effective resource allocation
Implementing strategic and integrated supply chain management and sourcing partnerships in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate and agree the benefits and risks of strategic sourcing
Leading meetings and taking decisions in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Organise and prepare for meetings effectively, ensuring all necessary resources are available
- Lead meetings in a professional and productive manner, facilitating discussion and achieving objectives
- Take decisions based on meeting outcomes and process actions accordingly, ensuring implementation and follow-up
Maintaining construction health, safety and welfare systems in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Establish a culture of health, safety, welfare and wellbeing in the workplace and identify and implement opportunities for improvements to promote a positive and safe working environment
- Ensure that an organisational system or procedure is implemented for the selection of personnel and those selected are competent for the role to ensure a skilled and safe workforce
- Implement systems which meet organisational and statutory requirements for identifying hazards, reporting accidents and emergencies and preventing reoccurrence to minimise risks and ensure compliance
- Check health, safety and welfare systems regularly, in accordance with organisational and statutory requirements to identify and record any special workplace conditions and situations which do not comply and take appropriate action to maintain a safe working environment
- Make recommendations for improving the work environment clearly and promptly to the appropriate people to facilitate continuous improvement
- Identify hazards and assess risks in the work place arising from construction work products, processes and equipment to minimise potential harm
- Identify and implement methods and procedures to reduce risk to protect workers and prevent accidents
Managing the performance of teams and individuals in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Allocate work tasks effectively to teams and individual employees
- Agree on clear and achievable work plans with teams and individual employees
- Assess the performance of teams and individuals, and provide constructive feedback to improve performance
Managing your own personal development in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Define your aims and objectives for undertaking personal development
- Contact sources of support and guidance to identify recognised standards for you to manage your personal development
- Analyse the current level of your knowledge and performance
- Develop a profile of your competence and personal development needs
- Prepare a development plan for achieving identified development needs
- Undertake development activities aimed at achieving identified development needs, reviewing the effectiveness of the activities
- Obtain, accept and record feedback from people who can judge your performance
- Review the cycle of personal development aims and objectives to revise and update aims and objectives to suit changing circumstances
Obtaining tenders and appointing contractors in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Shortlist tenderers
- Select documents
- Obtain tenders
- Evaluate tenders and appoint contractors
Optimising contract progress and controlling costs in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Optimise contract progress through effective planning, monitoring and control measures
- Control contract costs by implementing cost management strategies and monitoring expenditure against budget
Planning surveys in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the requirements for investigations related to workplace projects
- Identify the specific requirements for conducting surveys in the workplace
- Select appropriate survey processes and operational methods for workplace projects
- Investigate and evaluate specific factors relevant to the project being surveyed
Preparing and agreeing interim valuations, entitlements and final accounts in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare interim valuations and final accounts in accordance with relevant regulations and contractual agreements.
- Agree interim valuations and final accounts with relevant stakeholders, addressing any discrepancies or disputes.
- Process entitlements for reimbursement for loss and expense, ensuring accurate documentation and compliance with contractual terms.
Specifying production document requirements and ensuring the control and maintenance of project information in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Specify production document requirements in accordance with project needs and organisational standards
- Monitor and control the preparation of prescriptive specifications to ensure accuracy and compliance
- Control and maintain project information to ensure accessibility, security and version control
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 6 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Capture project requirements
- Control contract work
- Coordinate project designs
- Develop a procurement plan and optimise supplier and service provider performance
- Develop a programme of works and a procurement programme
- Develop and maintain working relationships
- Develop, implement and monitor plans for ethical employment and working practices with suppliers
- Evaluate enquiries and submit tenders in construction contracting operations management
Where this can lead
Supplier Development Manager
This role is a fantastic launchpad for a long and impactful career in supply chain. It's challenging, rewarding, and you'll learn a huge amount that will serve you well, no matter where you decide to go next.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 9 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers monitoring contract work to ensure compliance with quality standards and statutory requirements. Learners will identify deviations, implement corrective actions, and maintain accurate records to uphold contract compliance.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for GQA Level 6 NVQ Diploma In Construction Contracting Operations Management V2
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited.
- Controlling contract work in the workplace
- Coordinating project designs in the workplace
- Developing a procurement plan and optimising supplier and service provider performance in the workplace
- Developing a programme of works and a procurement programme in the workplace
- Developing and maintaining working relationships in the workplace
- Establishing the condition of property in the workplace
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.