Best Practice Guide: Improving Management of Building Contracts (CICV)
Compiled by more than a dozen industry experts (including FIS) through Construction Industry Collective Voice (CICV), the in-depth guide offers a wealth of practical information to support specialist contractors to understand and proactively manage a range of issues related to construction contracts.
As guide includes information on:
- Tender qualifications
- Contract amendments
- Payment schedules
- Payment applications
- Payments received and value
- Variations
- Retentions
- Fluctuations
- Notices
- Record keeping
- Quality/defects
- Conflict Avoidance Process (CAP).
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Best Practice: Commercial Management and Dispute Avoidance E-Learning Course
This e-learning offers a practical course for contractors and subcontractors, focused on improving commercial management through a focus on payment, risk, variations and dispute avoidance. The course is packed with advice accumulated from a raft of industry experts and is targeted at owners, commercial manages and those that wish to get a grounding in contractual processes to help improve their understanding and tighten processes within their business.
The course is based on the Best Practice Guide originally produced by the Construction Industry Collective Voice (CICV) in Scotland.
Additional Best Practice Notes
The CICV Guide has been extended with the introduction of a number of supporting Best Practice Notes, they can be downloaded below:
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No12, with information about suspension for late payments.
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No11, with an update on low-value adjudication schemes.
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No10, with an introduction to the Conflict Avoidance Process (CAP).
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No9, with an invaluable overview of terminations.
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No8, with info about quality issues and defects.
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No7, with expert industry advice on retentions.
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No6A, with insight into loss and expense claims.
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No6, with an overview of extension of time claims.
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No5, with information on payment applications and schedules.
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No4, with advice on variations and compensation events.
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No3, with an in-depth insight into contract amendments.
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No2, with an important overview on record-keeping
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No1A, with information on dealing with notices under NEC
CICV Best Practice Guide Note No1, with key recommendations on notices