Contract Administration

Contract administration, done properly.

Administer the building contract from tender to final certificate, with every instruction, response and certificate citing the clause it comes from.

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Riverside Mills

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JCT Standard Building Contract With Quantities 2024 · week 31 of 94

DocumentReferenceStatus
InstructionsAI-001–01414 issued
RFIs47 received3 open
Submittals38 received6 awaiting review
Interim certificate 7Valuation 25 MarchDue in 4 days

Next contractual date: valuation 25 March, certificate within 5 days, final date for payment 8 April.

The cost of a late document

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A certificate issued outside its window can make the contractor's notified sum payable in full.

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Payment calendar

Clause 4.9
ValuationCertify byFinal dateStatus
25 Feb2 Mar9 MarIssued
25 Mar30 Mar8 AprDue in 4 days
25 Apr30 Apr8 MayScheduled

Every date generated from the contract particulars on the day the contract was uploaded. Reminders before each one.

One contract underneath

Upload the contract once. Everything after it has its references.

The particulars drive the preliminaries, the clause numbering on every instruction, the retention on every valuation and the date on every certificate.

The practice's own licensed form

Particulars, amendments and payment periods read from the executed contract, then used by every document the job produces.

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What the contract drives

Riverside Mills
StepWorkflowContract reference
01PreliminariesA20 drafted from the real contract
02InstructionsClause 3.14, 3.16, 3.17 and the rest
03RFIs and submittalsResponse periods and obligations
04ValuationsRetention at 3 per cent
05CertificatesInterim dates, final date for payment

Amendments to the standard form are flagged, confirmed once, then carried through everywhere.

The contract administrator built for the age of AI.

Four connected workflows, all reading the same contract. Drafted from the project documents, checked before issue, and filed to the record on the day they go out.

Building Contract

The contract, read and ready

Start from the form the practice already licenses, not from a retyped summary of it.

  • Particulars extracted from the executed form, with anything unclear flagged
  • A20 preliminaries drafted from the real contract rather than a template
  • Bespoke amendments detected, confirmed once, then used everywhere
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Contract particulars

Extracted3 to confirm

JCT Standard Building Contract With Quantities 2024 · uploaded 11 Feb

Contract sum
£12,840,000 excluding VAT
Date for completion
14 August 2027
Liquidated damages
£2,400 per week
Retention
3 per cent
Interim valuation date
25th of each month
Rectification period
12 months

Sectional completion not stated in the uploaded form. Confirm before the first certificate.

Instructions

Instructions that cite the right clause

Every instruction type the contract allows for, not just variations.

  • Variations, discrepancies, provisional sums, opening up, dayworks and the rest
  • Cost and time effect carried into a running change register
  • Approved substitutions written back into the clause and the schedules
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AI-014 · Variation

Issued 12 Mar

Clause 3.14 · Riverside Mills · issued to Haldane Construction Ltd

Instruction
Omit painted MDF skirting to ground floor. Substitute solid oak, 19 x 120mm, clear lacquer.
Affects
Spec P20/310 · Drawing A-204 · Finishes schedule FS-01
Cost effect
+£4,820
Time effect
None stated

Spec clause P20/310 and the finishes schedule will update together on acceptance.

RFIs and Submittals

Answered against the record, not from memory

The two places where a wrong answer becomes a built mistake.

  • Responses drafted from the project's own specification and drawings
  • Submittals cross-checked against the clauses that govern them
  • Captured from email, so the register stays complete either way
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RFI-042

Response drafted

From Haldane Construction Ltd · received 09:14 · due in 3 days

Question
Movement joint at grid F conflicts with the waterproofing termination shown at the slab edge. Which takes precedence?
Draft response
Waterproofing termination takes precedence. Relocate the movement joint 150mm east of grid F, maintaining the 12m maximum centres required by F30/220.

Cross-referenced against 3 sources: J40/140 waterproofing, F30/220 movement joints, detail D-2140 slab edge.

Valuations and Certificates

Certified inside the contract's own window

The dates come from the contract, not from someone's diary.

  • Valuation and certificate dates generated for the whole contract period
  • Retention applied at the contract rate, and halved at practical completion
  • Interim, practical completion, making good and final certificates
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Interim Certificate No. 7

Due in 4 days

Valuation date 25 March · certificate due within 5 days · clause 4.9

Gross valuation
£1,284,500
Less retention 3%
−£38,535
Less previously certified
−£1,102,000
Amount due
£143,965
Final date for payment
8 April 2026

A pay less notice, if required, must be given no later than 3 April.

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