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Assembling a Collaborative Project Team
‘Off-the-shelf’ collaborative project team contracts
Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT): www.jctltd.co.uk
The JCT Constructing Excellence contract (JCT/CE) was launched in 2007 and
is derived from the ‘collaborative contract’ originally published in 2003 by BE (a
joint venture between the Reading Construction Forum and the Design and Build
Foundation and now part of Constructing Excellence). It is suitable for the
procurement of construction works and/or for the provision of professional
services and where participants wish to engender collaborative and integrated
working practices. It is the JCT’s first ‘partnering’ contract and it introduces the
concept of an ‘overriding principle’ of collaboration under which the parties
must support collaborative behaviour and confront any practice which is ‘anticollaborative’. The contract also introduces the concept of a project team.
The project team guides the successful delivery of the project through its design
and construction phases and to achieve this objective they are required to ‘meet
regularly’. The project team members are encouraged to prepare and adopt a
project protocol that sets out the team’s aims and objectives with regard to the
delivery of the project and the development of their working relationships. Other
tools include the preparation of a risk register and a risk allocation schedule.
In 2009, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) agreed to endorse the use
of this contract as part of their Achieving Excellence in Construction initiative.
ACA Standard Form of Contract for Project Partnering PPC2000: Amended 2008
The ACA’s PPC2000 brings together the client, design team and contractor
under a single multi-party contract. The core members of the project team sign
the agreement and, as further members join the project team, they sign a Joining
Agreement, with specialist subcontractors signing a back-to-back SPC2000
specialist contract for project partnering. The multi-party contract replaces the
many bilateral contracts that the client would normally sign, and avoids the separate
partnering agreement sometimes bolted on to the traditional contract forms.
The contract includes incentivisation clauses (for example, shared savings or
rewards linked to early delivery of the project), aimed at changing traditional
adversarial attitudes, and a risk register along with key performance indicators
(KPIs) and targets can be incorporated into the contract. The partnering and
project timetable is a core part of the contract, and design and process (HOW)
aspects are also included.
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