Contract Strategy Presentations

At its heart, contract strategy is about the allocation of risk and how much or what is shared, transferred or capped. This affects the contract Prices and motivations during the contract. This collection of contract strategy related conference talks has the most recent talks first.

An Overview of Early Contractor Involvement

TAGS: alliancing, collaboration, collaborative working, Contract Strategy/Flexibility, Early Contractor Involvement, ECI, NEC, NEC4

This presentation, given at the start of 2023, talks through 6 different archetypes of Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) and their pros & cons and hence which one is most suitable for different types of projects. It then does the same for the three different basic types of Alliances.

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ECI and Project Incentivisation

TAGS: alliancing, Contract Strategy/Flexibility, Early Contractor Involvement, ECI, NEC, NEC4

This presentation was given by Jon at the 2018 Linked In NEC People conference. It firstly looks at the effectiveness of positive versus negative incentivisation; then at the different types of Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) under NEC and, lastly, at the three basic types of Alliance arrangements.

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Creating unexpected value from outcome based procurements

TAGS: Contract Strategy/Flexibility, contract strategy, outcome based contracting

In collaboration with the Association for Project Management, Jon chaired a webinar to discuss 'Creating unexpected value from outcome based procurements'. The fellow participants were Darren Knowd, Tony Birch and Hugo Minney.

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Beyond Collaboration with Connect Plus

TAGS: Contract Strategy/Flexibility, NEC, NEC3

Given in 2017, Chris Richardson of Connect Plus, the organisation that maintains the M25, explains the issues that they have, before Jon outlines the innovative approach they are taking to their future frameworks. It has proved highly successful in practice.

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Alliancing Strategy for New Zealand Coal Mine - Part 1

TAGS: alliancing, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative working, Contract Strategy/Flexibility

This is the first video of a presentation Jon gave at the Association for Project Management conference on 'Contracting for Benefits'. In it, Jon explains how he worked with New Zealand's national coal mining company, Solid Energy (NZ) Ltd, to select and contract with an Australian coal mining company in order to transform the operation of their largest coal mine and double its working life.

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Alliancing Strategy for New Zealand Coal Mine – Part 2

TAGS: alliancing, collaboration, collaborative working, Contract Strategy/Flexibility, contract strategy

This video continues the presentation Jon gave at the Association for Project Management conference on 'Contracting for Benefits'. In it, Jon explains how he worked with New Zealand's national coal mining company, Solid Energy (NZ) Ltd, to select and contract with an Australian coal mining company in order to transform the operation of their largest coal mine and double its working life.

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Alliancing Strategy for New Zealand Coal Mine – Part 3

TAGS: alliancing, collaboration, collaborative working, Contract Strategy/Flexibility

This is the last video of a presentation Jon gave at the Association for Project Management conference on 'Contracting for Benefits'. In it, Jon explains how he worked with New Zealand's national coal mining company, Solid Energy (NZ) Ltd, to select and contract with an Australian coal mining company in order to transform the operation of their largest coal mine and double its working life.

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