JCT Management Building Contract 2008

A few weeks ago the JCT unveiled two of its final new contracts for 2008, the JCT Pre-Construction Services Agreement for two-stage tendering which comes in General Contractor and Specialist forms. Both are designed for use under both traditional and design and build procurement.

No doubt much will be written about them since the construction market has embraced two-stage tendering in recent years. The JCT at the same time launched a public sector Consultancy Agreement, maintaining a recent trend amongst contract publishers for introducing appointments which can be used to appoint an entire professional team.

That is not to say that the JCT has suddenly come over all populist. In fact, its first contract launch of the year was a new version of its management contracting suite of contracts. The RICS Contracts in Use Survey of 2004 revealed that, of the 2,300 plus projects considered, a mere 0.2% used management contracting.