CONS6702 – Contract Administration
Module code
CONS6702
Module title
Contract Administration
Prescription
The aim of this course is to develop the knowledge and skills to prepare tender documentation, evaluate a tender and complete post tender, construction and post-construction administration.
NZQA Level
Level 6
NZQA Credits
15
Delivery method
- Web-Enhanced
Learning hours
- Total learning hours
- 150
Resources required
- Content
- - Tender methods – pre-registration, sole source, invited, public.
- Contract types.
- Client requirements – format, timing, distribution, people involved.
- Documentation assembly – invitation, conditions/special conditions of tender, conditions/special conditions of contract, drawings, specification, tender forms.
- Tender period and timeline.
- Receipt of tenders, treatment of late tenders.
- Tender evaluation – validity/compliance, tags listed, special conditions, rates/percentages/profit margins, analysis of sub trades and identified anomalies, clarifications as required, tender negotiation, reporting, ranking.
- Post-tender administration – tender acceptance/decline.
- Legal – bond, formal agreement, contract signed sets.
- Documentation – drawings and register, consents, certificates, health and safety/environmental management plans.
- Site establishment.
- Administration – monitoring, systems for instruction, reporting, claims, variations, fluctuations, protocols.
- Contract completion – commissioning, producer statements, warranties/guarantees, extensions, inspections, certificates, final accounts.
- Post-construction documentation – as-built drawings, equipment dossier, maintenance schedule, producer statement and code compliance certificate. - Learning Outcomes
- - Assess pre-tender requirements to prepare documentation for a construction project
- Evaluate a tender for a construction project
- Prepare post-tender administration documentation for a construction project
- Prepare construction and post-construction administration documentation for a construction project - Learning and Teaching Resource
- All required and recommended resources are advised to aakonga via course outlines.
- Teaching and Learning Strategy
- Learning and teaching activities will employ a range of elements drawn from approved methods to align with the context of the learning (delivery mode, regional specific requirement, etc.) and any particular needs of the group of aakonga.
- Assessment Criteria
- Assessment in this course employs an achievement-based grading scheme. Aakonga will be advised of all matters relating to summative assessment prior to the start of the course.
