Event Reports
14 March 2008
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE SUPPLEMENT
Session 1 – Operating the contract mechanisms
• Managing the transition stages – from negotiation through construction to operation
• Managing partnership relationships
• Moving from procurement to delivery teams
• Predictable events – benchmarking, market testing and review mechanisms
• Making sure parties know and enforce their rights
• Market testing versus benchmarking
• Review meetings and processes, and other contact between parties
• Variation procedures
• Reducing the red tape for contract variations
• Managing expectation and facilitating a sensible level of variation
Session 2 – Issues outside the contract mechanism
• Dispute resolution
• Dispute avoidance
• Conducting disputes within a continuing long-term relationship
• Rectification and termination
• Effectiveness of performance mechanisms
• Rectification, voluntary termination and compensation on termination
• Termination within the supply chain
• Refinancings
• Impact on the contract
• Public sector and commercial awareness of refinancing possibilities
and impact
• Sharing refinancing gains
Session 3 – Concluding thoughts – lessons to be learnt
• Strengths and weaknesses of PFI contracts
• What is and isn’t working and why?
• Are the standard forms and guidance evolving to fit with reality?
- Venue
- Hilton Tower Bridge
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