CONTRACTS, CONTRACT LAW, TENDERING AND CONTRACT
ADMINISTRATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
What courses of action could be taken if an error was
discovered in a tender? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Discrepensies in the
tender document: DEPENDENT ON THE TYPE OF CONTRACT
1. JCT with Quantities
• Errors and omissions are required to be corrected and treated
as if they were a
variation requiring an instruction.
2. Design and Build Contracts
• The client chooses which takes precedence and it is written
into the contract
documents
,3. JCLI - Correction of inconsistencies
• Any correction which results in revision to quantities/ rates
will result in a variation.
• Discrepancies resolved by instruction/ variation.
• Contract Administrator decides precedence where there are
no priced work schedules
Discrepencies in Tender Pack noticed by Tenderer:
• Tenderer raises TQ (Tender Query) to QS
• QS asks Design Team for co-ordinated response
• Response to TQ issued to all Tenderers
• Tracker of TQ's kept by QS to assist Construction stage
What is included in a tender package? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Drawings
Specifications
Bill of Quantaties
Invitation to Tender
How would you obtain potential construction costs for a
project? What if the project was a high level project worth over
,£4m? Where would you get potential costs from without
tendering? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
On a small landscape design scheme how would you go about
preparing the bill of quantities and the specification and what
would be included in the documents? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Might
use Schedule of Works instead:
• Document lists main sections - read with advanced drawings
and specs
• Priced on a lump sum basis
• Tenderer must measure
• Small to medium sized projects
From when and until when is a contractor responsible for site?
And what do they require for this period of time? - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-
What different kinds of contracts are there and when would
these be most suitable? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
, On the (specific example from log) project when you were
visiting the site, what did you use to check the works against? -
✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
If you visited site and the contractor has laid paving and you
were suspicious that they had not bonded it correctly, what
would you do? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Once you have made the contractor remove some paving to
check and have established it has been bonded correctly then
what happens next and who is liable for any extra costs
incurred? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
A client visits site and insists that the contractor relocates some
benches which are already in-situ, so the contractor agrees and
then sends an invoice for the further work (without you being
aware), which the client won't pay. Who is responsible and how
do you resolve this situation? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
What would be covered at a pre-start meeting? - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-
ADMINISTRATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
What courses of action could be taken if an error was
discovered in a tender? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Discrepensies in the
tender document: DEPENDENT ON THE TYPE OF CONTRACT
1. JCT with Quantities
• Errors and omissions are required to be corrected and treated
as if they were a
variation requiring an instruction.
2. Design and Build Contracts
• The client chooses which takes precedence and it is written
into the contract
documents
,3. JCLI - Correction of inconsistencies
• Any correction which results in revision to quantities/ rates
will result in a variation.
• Discrepancies resolved by instruction/ variation.
• Contract Administrator decides precedence where there are
no priced work schedules
Discrepencies in Tender Pack noticed by Tenderer:
• Tenderer raises TQ (Tender Query) to QS
• QS asks Design Team for co-ordinated response
• Response to TQ issued to all Tenderers
• Tracker of TQ's kept by QS to assist Construction stage
What is included in a tender package? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Drawings
Specifications
Bill of Quantaties
Invitation to Tender
How would you obtain potential construction costs for a
project? What if the project was a high level project worth over
,£4m? Where would you get potential costs from without
tendering? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
On a small landscape design scheme how would you go about
preparing the bill of quantities and the specification and what
would be included in the documents? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Might
use Schedule of Works instead:
• Document lists main sections - read with advanced drawings
and specs
• Priced on a lump sum basis
• Tenderer must measure
• Small to medium sized projects
From when and until when is a contractor responsible for site?
And what do they require for this period of time? - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-
What different kinds of contracts are there and when would
these be most suitable? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
, On the (specific example from log) project when you were
visiting the site, what did you use to check the works against? -
✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
If you visited site and the contractor has laid paving and you
were suspicious that they had not bonded it correctly, what
would you do? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Once you have made the contractor remove some paving to
check and have established it has been bonded correctly then
what happens next and who is liable for any extra costs
incurred? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
A client visits site and insists that the contractor relocates some
benches which are already in-situ, so the contractor agrees and
then sends an invoice for the further work (without you being
aware), which the client won't pay. Who is responsible and how
do you resolve this situation? - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
What would be covered at a pre-start meeting? - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-
