This Monday,10th December, the Construction Industry Council (CIC)published the CIC Consultants’ Contract and Scope of Services. The contract is a new multi-disciplinary form for use across the UK by experienced clients (employers or design and build contractors) appointing teams of consultants on major building projects.
At ContractStore we have for some time had a professional appointment for sale on our website which has a similar objective and is designed for use by a client appointing a number of different consultants on a construction project. Our document is in a form that will be familiar to, and accepted by, most construction lawyers as well as being easily understood by clients, whether experienced or not. For more information, go to http://www.contractstore.com/consultant
We have not yet reviewed the CIC appointment but will do so soon. As anyone engaged on a construction project will know, each professional organisation tends to promote its own form for use by its members – architects, quantity surveyors, etc., and these forms tend to be very different in style and language as well as too protective of the professional. What a client needs is a set of appointments with broadly similar terms and conditions and the CIC form – like ours- should be helpful in this respect.
