Administer NEC contracts properly for your clients, and your own appointment too

Two ways consultants use it

In your client's account. Where your client runs its contracts on Contract Status, you are given a role on the contracts you act on: Project Manager, Supervisor, Quantity Surveyor or a role your client has created. You see the same Action List, and your replies sit on the client's record, not in your firm's mailbox. That is what most clients want at the end of the job.

For your own contracts. A Professional Service Contract can be recorded as just that: the pages say Consultant and Service Manager, the main Option list offers only A, C, E and G, and a Professional Service Short Contract has its own short rules. Registers the form does not use, such as Tests and Inspections, are not shown.

If you run NEC contract administration as a service across several clients, tell us when you book. We will talk through how the accounts should be set up.

A day with NEC, without it and with it

When	Without it	With Contract Status
Morning	You have replies due on three contracts for two clients. Each client has a different tracker.	Each contract's Action List shows the replies due, worked out from that contract's periods.
Late morning	A Contractor's notification arrives in a shared mailbox. Your assistant is on leave. It is day five.	The notification has been on your list since it was submitted, and the e-mail links straight to the record.
Afternoon	You write a formal rejection and look up the right clause for this contract's edition.	The reply offers the outcomes the contract gives, and the clause comes from the library held for that form.
Later	The client wants to know the state of the contract. You spend an hour on a report.	The status report PDF is ready, and the client can see the same record.
At the end	You hand over a folder and hope it is complete. A dispute would mean reconstructing a timeline.	The close-out pack has the history, the timeline and the documents.