Contract & Procurement Advisory Services

The team at OC Expert Services has a detailed understanding of the factors that will cause budgetary and programme risk to engineering and construction projects and the options for optimising the transference of such risk.

We also have a detailed understanding of the forms of contract that are in operation throughout the UK and internationally, the issues and risks that are inherent in these contracts, and the amendments that can be made to each form to suit the particular needs of the parties and the project.

Our experience and knowledge can be very usefully deployed, by our clients appointing us to work alongside their project team and retained lawyers, to either prepare contract documentation or to review and suggest amendments to proposed contract documentation. The services we typically provide include:

• Examining and reporting on the adequacy of how the requirements for the project have been defined
• Examining and reporting on the adequacy of the contractor’s proposals for meeting the project requirements
• Identifying errors, conflicts and discrepancies within the proposed contract documentation and advising on the appropriate course of action
• Examining and reporting on risks and opportunities that are abnormal for the type of project of contract at hand
• Providing advice on how the contract should be managed and administered from a commercial perspective after it has been entered into
• Providing training to our client’s project team to familiarise it with the contract documentation, the risks/opportunities that are likely to arise and how they should be managed

The team at OC Expert Services also has experience in working with major construction companies and their legal teams to develop their suite of in-house sub-contract/consultant terms and conditions, amendments to standard forms, internal commercial management policy documents and programme management policy documents.