Contracts Management Professional

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Contracts Management Professional

(Contract Planning, Strategy and Claims Management)

  • Format: Classroom
  • Duration: 5 days
  • Language: English
  • Accredited: ILM Endorsed Training, CPE, KHDA Certified training courses
Contracts Management Professional

CLASSROOM DATES

Date Venue Fee CPE Credit
Date: 27-31 May 2024
Venue: London
Fee: US $5,950
CPE Credit: 30
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Date: 15-19 Sep 2024
Venue: Manama
Fee: US $5,950
CPE Credit: 30
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Date: 09-13 Dec 2024
Venue: Dubai
Fee: US $5,950
CPE Credit: 30
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ONLINE DATES

Date Venue Fee CPE Credit
Date: 09-13 Dec 2024
Venue: Live/Online
Fee: US $3,950
CPE Credit: 30
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INTRODUCTION

Contracts establish the responsibilities and rights of the parties. This EuroMaTech highly interactive Contracts Management Professional training course will provide a practical hands-on approach to effective management of contracts and offer techniques and contract strategies to assist this process. It will also assist in establishing an international risk management strategy with reference to contracts and develop good business practice to take advantage of opportunities, enhance efficiency and increase profitability.

In this EuroMaTech training course you will learn how to:

  • Enhance your contract management skills to improve contract and company performance
  • Develop systems to reduce the frequency of contractual disputes
  • Resolve such contractual disputes as do occur in an efficient fashion
  • Manage contracts and projects from the pre-contract, during the performance of the contract and through to the post-contract stage in accordance with best practices
  • Enhance profitability, not only by increasing money coming ‘in’ from contracts, but also by preventing unnecessary sums going out’ in operational disputes

This is not a law training course. It is the development of commercial awareness of delegates through practice of effective management procedures assisted by a working knowledge of necessary legal principle.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES
  • Understanding of necessary contractual and legal knowledge
  • Understanding of and application of different types of agreements
  • Increased commercial awareness needed to enhance smooth running of contracts
  • Increased ability to manage contracts with a view to reducing claims and conflict
  • Ability to identify and mitigate risk factors and associated commercial and programme implications
  • Understanding of the importance of good record keeping and service of contractual notices
  • Increased understanding of commercial liabilities resulting from schedule changes and variations
  • Improved ability, successfully to negotiate and maintain long term inter-business contracts with confidence
  • Understanding of the need to deal with issues as they arise and to resolve disputes within the contract structure wherever possible
  • Ability to analyse, negotiate and implement the most appropriate method of resolving disputes preventing escalation by early identification

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
  • Contract Administrators
  • Contracting Unit Supervisors
  • Project Engineers
  • Project Managers
  • Claims Managers and Business Audit Officers
  • Risk Managers
  • Contract Strategists
  • Staff who are new to their roles, or experienced staff looking for a refresher training course
Training methodology
TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This EuroMaTech Contracts Management Professional training course will combine conventional teaching based on real-life examples, often from the trainers own experience and with a high level of participation, including an interactive approach to involving participants in discussion of topics, exercises and encouraging participants to bring their own experiences forward for discussion and debate.

TRAINING SUMMARY

This EuroMaTech training course will address the framework within which contracts are created, and the methods by which valid contracts may be formed. It will also look at some of the different contracting strategies available in international contracting and some of the common provisions.

In addition, it will also look at payment issues and post-contract liability. The Contracts Management Professional training course will consider how to avoid disputes by good contract management and the various methods of resolving those disputes that do arise. This will include current international best practice in Alternative Dispute Resolution in general, and mediation in particular.

TRAINING OUTLINE
Day 1 : The Legal Framework of Contracts and How They Are Created
  • The Need for Contractual Relationships
  • External and Internal Dimensions of a Business Relationship
  • Formation of a Contract
  • The Key Elements of a Contract
  • Oral or Written?
  • Electronic Contracts
  • Terms of the Contract
  • Inter-Business Contracting
  • Law of Agency
  • Sources of Law
  • Developing Legal Knowledge and Skills
Day 2 : Some Issues Arising in Contracts
  • Precedence of Documents in a Contract
  • Obligations to Perform
  • Delivery, Acceptance and Transfer of Title and Risk
    • ICC Incoterms
  • Liability in Negligence – relationship with contract conditions
  • Product Liability and Defective Goods
  • Intellectual Property clauses – some special issues
  • Letters – Intent; Instruction / Award; Comfort; Awareness
  • Conflict of Laws and Choice of Law and Jurisdiction Clauses
Day 3 : Different Contracting Strategies in International Contracts
  • Some types of Standard Form / Model Form Conditions
  • Drafting Standard Terms
  • Potential Problems with Standard Form Contracts
  • Limiting or Excluding Liability
  • Unequal Bargaining Positions
    • Traditional Contracts
    • Fixed Price / Lump Sum
    • Bill of Quantities / Schedule of Rates – re-measured contracts
    • Full Reimbursable – “cost plus” – why this is sometimes the right answer
    • Dealing with Volatile Markets – economic price adjustment clauses and the use of indices
    • Adding incentives to lumps sums
  • Non-Traditional Contracts
    • Build Own Operate and Similar Structures
    • Alliances and Partnering
  • No Cure / No Pay – a technique from marine salvage that has wider uses
Day 4 : Contract Management and The Management of Change and Payment
  • The Need for Good Contract Management
  • Variation of Contract Terms
  • Variation of Scope of Work
  • Management of Variations and retaining Control of the Contract
  • Payment and Money Events
  • Delay, Suspension and Extension of Time
  • Finance and Payment in International Trade
  • Bonds and Guarantees
  • Defects Liability – warranty periods
    • Managing rolling warranties
  • Termination of the Contract and Remedies
  • Mitigation of Losses and Claims
Day 5 : Resolution of Disputes
  • Negotiation, Compromise and Settlement
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution – including mediation
  • Managing Disputes
  • Review of Programme, and Final Questions
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    ACCREDITATION

    ILM is one of the largest specialist Institutes for leadership & management development. EuroMaTech is a life-time Approved Centre with ILM (ID No. 002398) and have gained ILM Endorsement for a number of training seminars, allowing participants to get ILM Certificate through work-based training sessions.

    EuroMaTech is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.

    Euromatech is a Knowledge & Human Development Authority (KHDA) approved training institute in Dubai, licensed and approved to deliver training courses in the UAE.

    The KHDA is the regulatory authority in the UAE, that oversees administering, approving, supervising, and controlling the activities of various education providers in the UAE.  We are proud of our commitment to ensuring quality training courses and status as a KHDA-approved training provider.

    Taught by our team of highly qualified trainers, our KHDA approved training courses will provide you with an enriching learning experience and practical knowledge that will help you future-proof your career and support professional development within your organisation.

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