Have you used the ICE Conditions of Contract?

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Hello steven In the ice contract appendix that puts the consultants name in the frame it also asks for the name of the planning supervisor. Is that you. Is there a reason why you have to be named? Unlike for the consultant it does not ask for named representatives from you. Have you had experience of engineers or their representatives coming to ask if they can use your name in these contracts?

and have you looked at the roles of the characters outlined in the guide. The curators roles are defined, you apparently can- advise the Consultant (not the archaeologist) on any changes to the investigation in light of new findings. The consultant apparently can consider and –if appropriate, authorise variations to the investigation. Apart from whos boss its not entirely obvious how you are to become aware of the light of new findings, I suspect through the consultant. The consultant presumably becomes aware from the archaeologist.

quote:like the idea ery much of templated and formal contracts for smaller works .. very good idea indeed

hosty because of the unknowable nature of archaeology and archaeologists I am not convinced that any contract templates can be defined. If anything I suspect that archaeologists should be paid through gift. As it stands the only one on one contract mentioned so far is imans NEC professional services conrtact.

http://www.neccontract.com/newsletter/ar...EWS_ID=636

I suspect that because of the ice contract that it will be almost impossible to produce a straight forward ifa Employer-Archaeologist contract because

1) as the good doctor has said the consultants do think that they should be arbitrating through the structure set out in the ice contract for any and all potential archaeological field jobs.

2) Any straight forward, code complicit Employer-Archaeologist contract will show up the incongruities implicit in the ice contract. For a start the Employer would go from being the landowner to an engineer even though the landowner still exists in the ice world. There would have to be an explanation of when and why.

3) Outside of the contract the point at which a consultant would be necessary would have to be defined. As I have said consultants are involved mostly for the troublesome problems of getting developments getting permission. This is what the ice contract is about even though brilliantly it does not mention it.

Austin I didn’t want to be banned in the first place