Performance Overview 07

2007 was a successful year for our subcontractor partnerships, with a trend of improving scores across the board. The following charts demonstrate the improving performances in different categories of the Performance Report as well as comparing performance scores achieved over the past four years.

Year	No of suppliers	No of reports	Average no of reports per supplier	Average mark for year	Average H&S mark for year
2004	190	1,009	5.3	2.35	2.59
2005	282	1,294	4.6	2.13	2.20
2006	397	1,837	4.6	2.09	2.10
2007	390	1,921	4.9	2,06	2.05

Year	Min. mark to be in top 25 for the year	No of suppliers meeting or exceeding 2.0 score	No of suppliers meeting or exceeding 2.5 score	No of suppliers meeting or exceeding 2.75 score	No of suppliers meeting or exceeding 3.0 score
2004	1.95	13%	59%	85%	93%
2005	1.73	27%	77%	87%	94%
2006	1.61	36%	81%	90%	95%
2007	1.60	42%	84%	94%	97%

In 2007, we raised the standards we expected of our subcontractors to achieve a satisfactory result in our Performance Reports by changing the acceptable score from 3.0 to 2.75. (1 = Excellent, 5 = Poor).

As the new standard is harder to achieve, we’re delighted to report that 94% of our subcontractors have achieved or exceeded the acceptable standard in 2007 compared with 84% who would have achieved the same standard of 2.75 a year earlier.

Had we continued using the old acceptable score of 3.0 in 2007, we would have seen 97% of our subcontractors achieving this score.