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FIDIC Client/Consultant Model Services Agreement (4th edition)
This is an international consultant agreement aligned to the FIDIC Building Contracts.
This agreement is used predominately on large international engineering and
building projects. This appointment works in a similar manner to NEC3 with
certain clauses providing project-specific data.
GC/Works (formerly, Government Conditions)
The GC/Works suite of contracts contains the General Conditions for the
Appointment of Consultants, which can be used on a single project, and a
separate version for use on frameworks. The contracts are aligned to the building
GC/Works Building Contracts. They were created primarily for government projects
and are still available, although they are no longer being updated. The majority of
government contracts now adopt the NEC3 outlined above.
ACA SFA 2012: ACA Standard Form of Agreement for the Appointment
of an Architect
This contract closely follows its predecessor SFA/99. It is suitable for commercial
and consumer projects and includes model letters for each kind of project to
assist architects and their clients to come to a fair agreement on contract terms.
Building Contracts
The Building Contract between the client and the contractor is a pivotal and
essential component of any project, primarily because this contract will relate to
the majority of the Project Budget and is likely to deal with the most significant risks.
Building Contracts exist in a number of standard forms and these are summarised
below. Such contracts set out how the parties will deal with matters such as
payments, variations, insurances, preliminaries and penalties for late delivery.
This guidance document does not consider these issues or how to select the
most appropriate form of Building Contract. However, such guidance can be
obtained in Which Contract? published by RIBA Enterprises.
It is important to consider the interface between the professional services contracts
and the Building Contract. If this task is properly addressed, the Building Contract
should align with the design team’s professional services contracts. One method
of ensuring contract compatibility is to use professional services contracts and a
Building Contract that have been produced by the same publisher. This, however,
is not always possible as many publishers produce only professional services
contracts and not Building Contracts, or vice versa. Due to the diverse views on
the best contracts to use, it is still therefore essential to understand why it is
important to ensure that both forms of contract are aligned.
As a reminder, the contractor may have design responsibilities either for some or
all aspects of the design, although this design work will typically be undertaken
by members of the design team and/or specialist subcontractors.
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