Chapter 7: The Contractor's Perspective

This chapter describes

• the risks for a Contractor associated with early contractor involvement (ECI), particularly when budgets are not yet defined for the scope of works

• the benefits of ECI to identify risks and share/price those risks

• the costs and other disadvantages to the Contractor of ECI

• the opportunities gained through ECI to enhance the value of the design, clash coordination and value engineering

• the issues and barriers to early involvement of a Contractor and unrealistic expectations for the Contractor

• the stage at which the Contractor should be introduced – when is it too early for ECI?

• the commercial considerations, risk allocation and incentives.