Contracts Management — Summer 2024

Define Contract, Agreement, and Deed.

What do you mean by a labour contract? State its disadvantages.

Suppose an Executive Engineer of the Road and Building Department, Government of Gujarat, wants to publish a tender notice regarding a project: The construction of a new technical high school building in your city. Draft a tender notice on his behalf. Assume suitable data.

List various causes of disputes in civil engineering contracts.

Explain Expressions of Interest (EOI) and Request for Information (RFI).

Describe various elements of contract management.

Define contract administration and state the advantages of contract administration.

What are the benefits of the inverted bid model?

Explain possible types of risks in a contract.

Give responsibilities of the contractor as a construction contract party.

What are the responsibilities of a subcontractor?

What do you mean by legal and definite subject matter and lawful considerations?

Explain the cost-plus percentage rate contract and cost-plus fixed fee contract with advantages and disadvantages.

What do you mean by tender rates and validity of tenders as special conditions of contract?

What do you mean by final payment and maintenance period?

Explain the conditions of a contract for specifications and drawings, and labour laws.

Draft a list of general and special conditions of a contract.

Enlist various bidding models and explain Gate’s model in detail.

Write a short note on the mode of submission of tenders.1

What are the purposes of risk management?

Define Direct stakeholders, Indirect stakeholders, Positive stakeholders, and Negative stakeholders.

Explain the essential steps of the risk management process.

Explain in brief: Limited tender and Negotiated tender.

Write various reasons for the rejection of the lowest tender.

Explain the process of e-tendering.