Iconic Inspection Connection negates the need for major engineering and construction firms around the world to enter into complex and expensive global inspection contracts with inspection suppliers all around the world. Iconic is an invaluable tool where clients’ procurement and project management teams are able to search for, locate, review, correspond with and employ from a wide variety of inspection professionals, and in the areas where it is difficult or too costly for the client to visit personally. Iconic administers all contractual elements including the inspectors remuneration for all services approved as being delivered satisfactorily.
Iconic represents an innovative option for Project Management Teams and oil, gas, petrochemical and mining companies to source accomplished personnel at lower overheads and where the majority of the fee is paid to the sub-contracting inspector/expediter.
It is hoped that Iconic will become an invaluable tool where clients’ procurement and project management teams are able to search for, locate, review, correspond with and employ from a growing community of inspection professionals, and in the areas where it is difficult or too costly for the client to visit personally.
Iconic administers all contractual elements including the inspectors remuneration for all services approved as being delivered satisfactorily. Iconic represents an innovative option for oil, gas, petrochemical and mining companies' Project Management Teams to source accomplished personnel at lower overheads and where the majority of the fee is paid to the sub-contracting inspector/expediter.
The Iconic web community has been designed so that quality professionals – inspectors and expeditors across multiple disciplines are able to advertise and trade services with the prospective buyers. Iconic’s philosophy is based on the traditional ideologies of personal reputation. Individuals would be solely responsible for their own actions. Accordingly, individual professionals set their own rates based on domestic market drivers, local cost of sales and regulatory requirements in each region; as well as through on-going discussions with prospective and regular buyers in view of availability of each individuals time.
As an individual’s reputation grows or declines within the community, the individual’s rate is likely to reflect the performance status. Buyers are able to build up a portfolio of regular proven individuals at key locations around the world and have the ability to assess, rank, reject or approve technical specialists based on each individual’s reputation and current performance outcomes.
Iconic Inspection Connection is the first ever open source web community where quality assurance and quality control inspection professionals and project engineers from around the world are able to interact. The premise is based on a transparent and holistic approach to developing a web community where the clients and their preferred technical specialists around the world are able to better understand shared quality objectives and achieve a consistent and trusted long term relationship towards meeting specified quality requirements.
The existing means to source and employ inspection representatives, expeditors or auditors (technical specialists) - either Contractors or Third Party - can be difficult if attempted "in house", or expensive if sub-contracted to a Third Party Inspection Agency. Traditionally today in Europe, USA, Asia and Australia there are large pools of inspection, expediting and auditing personnel who are self-employed and actively working for more than one of the well-known global inspection services suppliers.
Inspection agencies face difficulties in managing freelance personnel and ensuring that the agency is able to enforce company procedures and policies on to the freelance personnel who are constantly on the move and find it difficult to continuously adopt various forms of agency protocol. Most agencies are looking for solutions in how to maintain the technical specialist's competency even though most freelance personnel have undertaken and maintain valid internationally recognised trade qualifications. Furthermore, the nature of industry projects and globalisation has resulted in the need for technical specialists to travel further afield for stable employment.
Iconic believes that the most appropriate solution is to build direct relationships between clients and the inspectors. This means empowering technical specialists, placing direct responsibility and liability firmly with the inspector, expeditor or auditor. Having a personal liability and developing a reputation based on personal performance would be a motivational factor for technical specialists to act in strict accordance with the contract requirements.