Contract Administration

Trusted, high-quality contract administration

We provide a detailed Contract Administration service on all types of projects from simple basic repairs to substantial multi-disciplinary design team refurbishment and reconfiguration schemes.

The Contract Administrator role will generally include:

• Initial site and scope assessment to ascertain the extent of works
• Preparing or overseeing Specifications of work.
• Inviting, processing and evaluating tenders.
• Preparing contract documents for execution.
• Administrating change control procedures.
• Seeking instructions from the client in relation to the contract.
•  Issuing instructions such as variations, or relating to prime cost sums or making good defects.
•  Considering claims.
•  Chairing construction progress meetings.
• Preparing and issuing construction progress reports.
•  Co-ordinating and instructing site inspectors.
•  Agreeing commissioning and testing procedures.
•  Agreeing defects reporting procedures.
•  Ensuring that project documentation is issued to the client.
•  Issuing certificates of practical completion and interim certificates.
• Collating and issuing schedules of defects.
•  Issuing the certificate of making good defects.
•  Issuing the final certificate.

Allied to our Contract Administration role we frequently undertake the role of Principal Designer under the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations.