Project and Contract Management
Contract Management
FIDIC Contract Management and Administration
Administering a FIDIC contract to its own clauses, where the notice and the time bar decide the entitlement.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Intermediate
- Fee from
- US$1,500
Overview
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.
Who should attend
Contract administrators, quantity surveyors and project managers working under FIDIC conditions, engineers and employer representatives issuing instructions, and commercial staff preparing or defending claims.
What you will be able to do
- 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.
How it is taught
Short input, then work, across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each. Exercises run on situations delegates bring rather than on a case study written for a different organisation. Cohorts are capped so that everybody is asked something.
Available as classroom, live online, in house.
Programme outline
Day 1
The books and the roles
- Red, Yellow and Silver, and choosing between them
- Employer, Contractor, and the Engineer's dual function
- Risk allocation, and where each book moves it
- Reading the Particular Conditions before the General
Day 2
Notices and time bars
- What must be notified, by whom, and within what period
- The consequence of a late notice, and whether it is fatal
- Records that make a notice supportable
- A correspondence discipline that survives a change of staff
Day 3
Instructions and variations
- What constitutes an instruction, and what does not
- Valuing a variation, and when the rates no longer apply
- Instructed work against constructive change
- Agreeing before the work rather than after it
Day 4
Time and money
- Extension of time, concurrency, and the programme as evidence
- Delay analysis a decision maker will accept
- Interim payment, certification, and the cost of withholding
- Suspension and termination, and the steps before either
Day 5
When it goes wrong
- Claims, and the difference between an entitlement and a grievance
- Dispute boards, and preparing a case for one
- Arbitration, and what the contract already decided about it
- Settling, and the records that determine the number
What you leave with
- 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.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Accra, Ghana | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Port Louis, Mauritius | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | US$1,500 |
Fees are per delegate and cover tuition, all programme materials and the certificate. Travel, accommodation and visas are arranged by the delegate. Registration closes two weeks before a programme starts.
Certificate
A GATI certificate recording what was 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.
It records participation. and GATI does not claim one it does not hold.