Have you used the ICE Conditions of Contract?

[1man1desk]

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quote:Why haven?t the ifa issued a copy? (do they get a cut from the thirty quid?)

No, the IFA don't get a cut, although they are one of the four joint copyright holders. The others are the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the Association of Consulting Engineers (ACE) and the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA), which together make up the Conditions of Contract Standing Joint Committee (CCSJC).

The contract was written by a joint working party of the IFA and CCSJC, with support from the ICE secretariat, and is published as part of a regular series (the ICE Conditions of Contract).

The publisher is Thomas Telford Publishing, which is the publishing wing of the ICE. If there is a profit on the sales (which I doubt, given the likely volume of sales) then it would go to them.

The individual IFA representatives on the joint working party (or their employers) gave their time as a contribution to the profession; no fees were paid. So far as I am aware, the same applies to the representatives from the CCSJC.

The contract was produced this way because the IFA clearly did not have the expertise on contracts in-house but did have the required knowledge of how archaeology works, whereas the ICE/CCSJC did have both the contractual expertise and a specialist publishing house, but did not have sufficient archaeological knowledge to do the job themselves.



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