Your role: Main Contractor

Who are you dealing with?

Pick the counterparty. Each link opens with what you send and what you receive. The processes you appear in are listed below.

Procurement routeApplies to the Employer, consultants and Main Contractor

The Employer designs through its consultant, tenders complete drawings and bills, and the contractor builds. FIDIC 1999 Red Book.

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GovernanceDay-to-dayNominatedClient and DeveloperEmployer and Design ConsultantEmployer and Supervision ConsultantDesign Consultant and SubconsultantEmployer and Main ContractorEngineer and Main ContractorMain Contractor and SubcontractorEmployer and Nominated SubcontractorMain Contractor and SupplierEmployer and Specialist VendorSubcontractor and SuppliersEmployer and FM ProviderFM Provider and Maintenance Subcontractors Client Employer FM Provider Design Consultant Subconsultant SupervisionConsultant Main Contractor Subcontractor Supplier

Processes you appear in

Variation

From a change found on site to a signed variation order, and back down into the subcontract.

Passes through
Starts with Supplier quotation with compliance statementends with Subcontract variation order
10 steps5 parties

Delay and extension of time

Notices travel up within their time limits, the Engineer decides, the Employer approves, and the result comes back down.

Passes through
Starts with Early warning noticeends with Subcontract extension of time grant or rejection
10 steps4 parties

Payment

A delivery note becomes a subcontract application, a main contract application, a certificate and a payment.

Passes through
Starts with Delivery note and packing listends with Final statement and discharge
9 steps5 parties

Material and shop drawing submittals

Supplier data becomes a submittal, is reviewed with a status code, and releases procurement when approved.

Passes through
Starts with Technical compliance sheet (specification against offer)ends with Purchase order with terms and conditions
6 steps5 parties

Inspection and quality

Work is offered for inspection up the chain, non-conformances come down, and both are closed on the record.

Passes through
Starts with Inspection request and logends with Material inspection request on delivery
6 steps3 parties

Main contract tender and award

From prequalification to award. A bidder asks, the design consultant answers and every bidder receives the same addendum; the tenders are then analysed, clarified and awarded.

Passes through
Starts with Contractor prequalification questionnaire and scoringends with Acknowledgement of award and pre-contract checklist
14 steps3 parties

Subcontract tender and award

The main contractor builds a package, invites offers, compares them, negotiates and signs. Every package, whatever the project stage.

Passes through
Starts with Subcontract package creation checklist and workshop recordends with Subcontract agreement, supply and installation
14 steps2 parties

Handover, defects and close-out

From the handover strategy to the taking-over certificate, the defects period and the performance certificate.

Passes through
Starts with Subcontract completion notice and handoverends with Final statement and discharge
14 steps6 parties

Specialist equipment procurement

Buying a specialist system from abroad: justification, currency, guarantees, shipping, interfaces and commissioning.

Passes through
Starts with Request for quotation packends with Warranty certificate and spare parts list
14 steps4 parties

Design appointment and design development

From the business case and the scope of design services, through concept, schematic and detailed design and the authority approvals, to the tender package.

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Starts with Business caseends with Invitation to tender and instructions to tenderers
15 steps4 parties

Supervision appointment and mobilisation

The Employer sets the scope of supervision, the consultants propose their methodology, manpower and fees, and the winner mobilises its site team.

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Starts with Scope of supervision servicesends with Engineer’s delegation of authority to assistants
12 steps3 parties