When you submit your tender do you include clarifications / qualifications & exclusions? It’s important to include these as this clearly sets out the parameters of your bid. What’s more important however is that these are carried through to the...

How many times has a subcontract arrived that says something like ‘the main contract is available upon request’ or ‘the subcontractor is deemed to have read the main contract’ And then goes onto employ cover all back to back clauses...

Subcontracts which start off as standard contracts can run into hundreds of pages after the amendments made by the main contractor. What started off as a contract you were familiar with now no longer really resembles the standard form. If...

Payment terms are set by the contract. As a rule the terms of the contract will be written in favour of the employing party, if you don’t like long payment terms, condition precedents for payment, etc. then negotiate fairer terms....