CON5033 - Procurement and Contract Administration

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module will explore the principles of contract procurement and contract administration. The module will introduce you to the key elements of procurement and contract administration applied to the roles of contract administrators, the role of quantity surveyors in fulfilling the interests of contractors and construction commercial clients, as well as project managers working either for the main contractor or the client. The stages involve managing the documents once they have been submitted by various parties and the level of scrutiny given to the submitted documents will give grounding knowledge of pre-contract management.

The practices expected from a client’s side such as methods used to prepare documents and how the tender documents are prepared and issued to willing contractors will be contrasted and compared to procedures the contractor follows to those of the client and subcontractors. Where there is an element of design and build and the contractor is independent (not in-house with the client) then careful consideration has to be given to any works under subcontract arrangements. The module will also cover the post-contract procedure for the clients and contrast such activities to those of the main contractor and how briefing to the contractors and clients is managed. The decision to focus on NEC and JCT forms of contract will be outlined including other traditional and non-traditional forms of procurement.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures - Seminars
Hours: 2h X 10 weeks = 20
Intended Group Size: 60

Workshops - Tutorials
Hours: 2h X 10 weeks = 20
Intended Group Size: 20

Guided independent study
Hours: 260



Further Details Relating to Assessment

001: Group Presentation
002: Unseen Exam

Please note that The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - RICS - and Chartered Institute of Building – CIOB - professional bodies require students to achieve a pass mark in all assessed components. as this module carries Mandatory competences for the QS Pathway.

Further details of assessment are available in the Assessment Handbook for your programme and in Assessment Briefs provided by Module Tutors.

Assessment:

Fact File

Module Coordinator - PRS_CODE=
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - CON5013 CONSTRUCTION LAW
Semester(s) Offered -

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