Read and administer an Indian construction contract from appointment and tender through changes, time, payment, completion and claims. The emphasis is practical: identify who has authority, find the controlling document, issue the required notice, preserve the record and connect each site event to its contractual consequence.
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You receive an Indian building contract, its drawings and BOQ, a delayed site-handover record, contractor bills, instructions and correspondence about changed work. What can you produce before the next project meeting?
A contract-administration brief and live register that identify the controlling documents and authorised decision-makers, classify each instruction as original scope or change, track notices and time consequences, reconcile measured work with certified payment, record quality and completion obligations, and state what evidence is still missing. For any emerging claim, the brief separates event, clause, notice, cause-and-effect, time or cost impact without pretending to replace legal advice.
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Course outline
Concept 1
Concept 1 · Read the contract as the project's operating system
Concept 2
After: contract-as-project-operating-system
The architect's appointment and the contractor's works contract govern different relationships, so a project title alone never proves authority.
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Concept 3
After: contract-as-project-operating-system, appointments-parties-and-authority
The same work can be described differently in a drawing, specification and BOQ; the contract decides which document controls.
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Concept 4
After: contract-as-project-operating-system, contract-documents-and-precedence
The contract type determines whether payment follows measured quantities, a fixed price or a broader design-and-delivery responsibility.
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Concept 5
After: appointments-parties-and-authority, contract-documents-and-precedence, contract-types-and-payment-basis
A letter of award creates commitments, but mobilisation should begin only after the agreement, securities, access and commencement conditions align.
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Concept 6
After: appointments-parties-and-authority, contract-documents-and-precedence, tender-award-and-commencement
A changed drawing or verbal request does not settle who authorised the work, how it will be valued or whether completion time changes.
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Concept 7
After: appointments-parties-and-authority, contract-documents-and-precedence, tender-award-and-commencement
Delay becomes a contract decision only when cause, notice, programme impact, responsibility and the revised completion date are connected.
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Concept 8
After: appointments-parties-and-authority, contract-documents-and-precedence, contract-types-and-payment-basis, tender-award-and-commencement
Work becomes payable through evidence, measurement and certification—not merely because a contractor includes it in a bill.
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Concept 9
After: variations-and-change-control, delay-eot-and-liquidated-damages, measurement-certification-and-payment
Physical finishing, certified completion, handover, defect liability and final release are related milestones—not one interchangeable date.
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Concept 10
After: variations-and-change-control, delay-eot-and-liquidated-damages, measurement-certification-and-payment
A credible claim connects an event to entitlement, notice, evidence and measured effect; a complaint records dissatisfaction but proves none of them.
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