CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION – Level 2

Question 1

1. What is your role involve as the Contract Administrator?

Question 2

2. What is the difference between an EA and a CA?

Question 3

3. What are the key requirements for a contract to be made binding?

Question 4

4. Can you please list the typical Contractual Mechanisms a CA would use?

Question 5

5. Can you give me an example of when you have administered one of those?

Question 6

6. What is the difference between a Relevant Event and a Relevant Matter?

Question 7

Name some relevant events?

Answer 7

Variations.
Exceptionally adverse weather.
Civil commotion or terrorism.
Failure to provide information.
Delay on the part of a nominated sub-contractor.
Statutory undertaker’s work.
Delay in giving the contractor possession of the site.
Force majeure (such as a war or an epidemic).
Loss from a specified peril such as flood.
The supply of materials and goods by the client.
National strikes.
Changes in statutory requirements.
Delays in receiving permissions that the contractor has taken reasonable steps to avoid.

Question 8

Name some relevant matters?

Answer 8

Failure to give the contractor possession of the site.
Failure to give the contractor access to and from the site.
Delays in receiving instructions.
Opening up works or testing works that then prove to have been carried out in accordance with the contract.
Discrepancies in the contract documents.
Disruption caused by works being carried out by the client.
Failure by the client to supply goods or materials.
Instructions relating to variations and expenditure of provisional sums.
Inaccurate forecasting of works described by approximate quantities.
Issues relating to CDM.

Question 9

7. What do you need as a CA before you can certify PC?

Question 10

8. What does Practical Completion trigger?

Question 11

Can you tell me about relevant events and relevant matters under the JCT D&B contract? Have you had to assess any EOT or L&E claims before?

Question 12

10. How would you, as a EA/CA calculate LDs for a client?

Question 13

11. On your Commence Road project, what needed to be in place before you issued Practical Completion?

Question 14

12. As EA on Commerce Road, can you tell me the process prior to issuing a formal instruction for a change?