Negotiation and Contracts

BPM Group understand that negotiating with contractors or other tradesmen can be daunting and costly, especially if you do not have prior industry knowledge or experience. If your interests are not protected during the build process and at final settlement, this can be a time of great anxiety, stress and significant extra expense, often leading to dissatisfying conclusions. This is why BPM Group offers its expertise to enable satisfactory preliminary negotiations and the implementation of industry standard contracts for tight governance of the project.

Negotiation

Clients who use us for the tender, selection and contract process benefit from our representation in any price, payment or programme negotiations with the contractors. BPM Group can conduct this on your behalf directly with the contractor or represent you when you are negotiating and confirming proposal terms. By utilising our forty years combined experience and qualifications in Quantity Surveying, Programming, Building Surveying and Project Management we will ensure that you have qualified and professional advisors ensuring you get the best deal.

Contracts

By using BPM Group's Contract Implementation Service, our clients will benefit from the following:

• Clear governing guidelines both parties
• Legally binding dispute resolution processes
• Clear commitment in law from contractor to complete your work to a defined budget and timescale
• Binding payment structure and procedure for disputed fee's or compensation
• Protection from variations to cost through variation submission process
• Process for termination of contractor employment
• Clear definitions of liability for damages
• Legal recourse if things go wrong
• Peace of mind

 BPM Group's construction contracts cover the following commercial elements of contract:

• Sum - (value for work agreed by both parties)
• Payment Structure - (payment of fee's, issuing of certificates of completion, disputes of fee's)
• Contractor & Employers Obligations - (defines commitment required from each party)
• Commencement & Completion Dates - (start & completion of works)
• Extension of Time - (provision for necessary & requested extension of time)
• Damages - (for late completion, poor quality, deviation from spec)
• Rectification Period - (days for rectification of issue's)
• Insurance - (injury and structural damage)
• Variations & Corrections - (necessary or requested changes to contract spec by contractor or employer)
• Terminations - (terms for cessation of work or termination of contract by both parties)
• Arbitration - (dispute resolution procedure)
• Insolvency - (insolvency of employer or contractor)