Using the NEC for multiple-site, undefined contracts Available to Purchase

This paper shows that the ICE's NEC Engineering and Construction Contract really is a well-structured and flexible tool that can deliver rather than dictate procurement strategy. It describes how Yorkshire Water Services simply and neatly modified the contract to allow new parcels of work on a rolling reservoir-upgrading programme—from feasibility studies to construction at different sites—to be let on a reimbursable, a lump-sum or a target-cost basis within a single contract. It explains the simple innovations with the ECC conditions and the structure of the contractor–consultant teams commissioned to undertake the work. A review of the possible wide-ranging applications of the modified contract is then given.