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.