Contract Administration Pitfalls and Solutions for Architect-Engineering Projects: A Journal

By Bob Jack

The basic building block of all architect-engineering firms is the client-funded individual project. These firms, of all sizes and complexities, have one thing in common: they all operate under the authority of contracts that must be successfully executed to ensure overall success and continuity of the firm. Without that success, the firm goes out of business. It therefore holds true that the degree to which these contracts are successfully managed determines the degree of success or failure of the enterprise. This journal therefore is dedicated to the business process we refer to as contract administration, or the combined acts of the firms staff to ensure that all elements desired by the client are formulated into a relationship that is reduced to writing known as the written contract and then successfully executed by the firm. Whether the company is comprised of one hundred employees or ten thousand, these contracts must be administered for success, within budget and within schedule, and meet the changing dynamics of the projects requirements over time. Effective contract administration is essentially a sound communications process that guarantees that fundamental information in the contract relationship is disseminated to the project and support personnel who are expected to perform the contracts requirements. This journal describes those tasks that must be executed to ensure that contract administration is a successful outcome, and that all the players on the company team execute their individual tasks professionally, repetitiously, and successfully.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504915748

Bob Jack

Mr. Jack possesses a BA degree with high honors in Economics from California State University at Los Angeles, an MBA degree (Strategic Management) from Azusa Pacific University and a Master of Science degree in advanced management from Claremont Graduate University's Drucker School. Aside from this book, Bob Jack has authored five more books - one about his son Chris, titled a Night in Darkness: The Drug - addicted Child; A Journal on Contract Administration Pitfalls and Solutions on Architect - Engineering Projects; A View from the Eagles Nest - when justice failed, and Discovering Your Boundaries and Increasing Firm Competitive Advantage Through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Mr. Jack lives in Harrison, Tennessee.

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Published by AuthorHouse 06/03/2015

ISBN: 978-1-5049-1560-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5049-1574-8 (e)

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Foreword

Chapter 1 Contract Administration Pitfalls and Solutions for Architect-Engineering Company

Chapter 2 Pre-contract, Proposal and Negotiation Phase

Chapter 3 Contract Review and Execution Phase

Chapter 4 Project Initiation Phase

Chapter 5 Project Performance Phase

Chapter 6 Project Closeout Phase

Chapter 7 Summary and Conclusion

Dedication

This Journal is dedicated to Jesse V. Harmon, a good friend and fellow contracts professional who was devoted to his profession and the people who practiced it.

Acknowledgements

I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to Christopher W. Larsen,AIA, and Gary L. Stone, Esq., for their advice and assistance in developing the content of this Journal.

About the Author

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The author is William R.(Bob) Jack.

Bob is a native Californian, born January 4, 1941 in Santa Monica, California.

Bob is married and lives in North Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife Jane.

He has two surviving children by his first marriage. James, who lives in Southern California with his wife Nery, and two children Chris and Niki and his daughter, also Niki who lives in Wyoming with her husband Dave, with two children, Zach and Rick.

Bob grew up in Southern California in the San Gabriel Valley area not far from Los Angeles. Bob’s youngest son Chris was killed in a