Jack Butler-Kettle

Tips for Contracts, Quantity Surveying

Explore all tips for Contracts in Quantity Surveying, with every available item in one place.

Tips

Placing subcontracts that hold

The most expensive subcontract is the one that was never signed.

Get it signed before the works start

Make the terms back to back where the risk has to pass down

Write the tender clarifications into the order

Place it on a form your team can administer

Keeping the negotiation record straight

A negotiation is won or lost in the tracking, not the first ask.

Keep a deal memo and update it after every exchange

Set your fallback before you ask, and hold to it

Watch later drafts for clauses that were meant to be dealt with

Check the execution copy against what was agreed