FIDIC Contract Management and Administration

FIDIC contracts are lost on administration rather than on argument. A contractor with a sound claim loses it by missing a notice period. An employer with a sound defence loses it by instructing a variation informally and paying for it twice. The clauses are specific about who must say what, to whom and by when, and the parties routinely do none of it until the dispute. This week works through the contract as it is actually administered: notices, instructions, variations, extension of time, payment, and escalation to a dispute board, using the clause numbers throughout.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Identify which FIDIC book fits a project, and what changes between them.
• Issue and respond to a notice within the period the contract requires.
• Administer a variation so it is valued and not disputed later.
• Prepare and assess an extension of time claim with the records it needs.
• Escalate to a dispute board without having prejudiced the position.

Contract administrators, quantity surveyors and project managers working under FIDIC conditions, engineers and employer representatives issuing instructions, and commercial staff preparing or defending claims.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A notice and correspondence register for one of the delegate's own contracts.
• A worked variation and an extension of time submission, to the clause requirements.
• A contract administration checklist tied to the time bars that apply.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.