Have you used the ICE Conditions of Contract?

[1man1desk]

Posted by Unit of 1:

quote:I presume that the engineer when looking for a consultant archaeologist to administer the contract puts the position out to tender. Has anybody got any open or public references of such a process? Is there a standard form to the contract between the engineer and the consultant?

Good question this time Mr Unit.
Sometimes the job is put out to tender on an individual project-by-project basis, sometimes it is part of a larger multi-disciplinary contract, or a longer fixed-term contract that may cover many projects over a period of years. In any of those cases, the work will usually have been won through a competitive process.

There are a number of different contractual forms under which the Consultant can be employed, but the most common in my experience is the NEC 'Professional Services' contract (NEC = New Engineering Contract). This form of contract is used for a wide range of services, varying from engineering design to multi-disciplinary environmental studies (or both at the same time).
That said, I work in a multi-disciplinary consultancy; perhaps those in purely archaeological, or purely environmental, organisations have different experience to me.

1man1desk

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