Flexibility Videos
How do I recover my Subcontractor’s overheads?
NEC allows recovery of Defined Cost plus Fee with each payment option having a slightly different approach to the calculations. So how do you make sure that those definitions tie up with the supply chains, so that no one is either under or over recovering ?
Why do options C, D and E let the Project Manager disallow costs?
Disallowed Cost is a subject that makes almost everyone, no matter which side of the contract they sit on, slightly hot under the collar. The fab four discuss why ‘Disallowed Cost’ is needed as a provision, what happens when it is wrongly applied and practical steps to avoid people getting hot under the collar!
NEC: Why aren’t options B and D used much?
There is a clear preference in the UK market for Options A and C : is there a contractual, legally, technical, or practical reason for that? Jon, Ian, Rob and Ewen discuss this and whether other alternatives are being missed?
Overview of the NEC – Is the NEC always suitable?
Overview of the NEC - Is the NEC always suitable? In this video, the panel discuss whether the NEC form of contract is always the best option for a project and, if ‘Yes’ how to apply it.
Overview of the NEC – What sets it apart from other contracts?
In this video, the panel discuss what aspects make the NEC3 form of contract unique.
Part 12 : Open book accounting
This video explains the importance of good open book management under the cost based options
Part 08 : Clarity and Simplicity
This video explains all the contract documents under the Engineering and Construction Contract as well as how the family achieves its Clarity and Simplicity objective.
Part 07 : Summary of Flexibility
This video summarises how ‘flexibility’ is put into practice when using the NEC3 family.
Part 06 : Flexibility and the Secondary options
This video gives an overview of how secondary options can be selected to fine tune the contract strategy
Part 04 : Flexibility and Contractor design
This video explains how the Engineering & Construction Contract can be used for any extent of Contractor design
Part 02 : Flexibility and the Family of Contracts
This video gives an overview of the whole NEC3 family of contracts
APM Guide to Contracts and Procurement 04: Package Contracting Strategy by Anne Holden
In this session by Anne Holden, you will gain : (1) an overview of the process for developing a package’s contract strategy; (2) a high level overview of the different contract strategies available; and (3) war stories to illustrate the pros & cons of different contract strategies; While presented by Anne, Jon led the writing of this section of the Guide.
APM Guide to Contracts and Procurement 03: Project Procurement Strategy by James Buckley-Walker
In this session by James Buckley-Walker you will learn about : (1) assessment of the internal capacity of the employer organisation or the external potential to provide the package; (2) the nature of the relationship sought with the potential provider; (3) the most appropriate high-level contracting strategy; (4) the provider selection strategy to be employed; and (5) defining the scope, interfaces & inter-dependencies between each package .
APM Guide to Contracts and Procurement 02: Concept and Feasibility by Dr Jon Broome
In this presentation by Jon, you will gain : (1) an overview of the process chart ; (2) why project managers and procurement people need to be involved at this stage; and (3) a few war stories to illustrate good and bad practice.
Alliancing Strategy for New Zealand Coal Mine – Part 3
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.
Alliancing Strategy for New Zealand Coal Mine – Part 2
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.
Alliancing Strategy for New Zealand Coal Mine – Part 1
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.
Beyond Collaboration with Connect Plus
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.
Creating unexpected value from outcome based procurements
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.
An Overview of Early Contractor Involvement
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.
NEC – Six levels of use of the programme
In this video, Jon gives a quick overview of the NEC3 family of contracts before explaining the six levels of use of the Accepted Programmes which he has observed in high performing NEC3 contracts.
An NEC interview with the Chairman of the APM C&P SIG
Jon is interviewed here in his role as chair of the APM’s Contracts & procurement SIG, before focussing on the NEC3 Professional Services Short Contract which, in 2013, had just been published and Jon led the development of.
NEC4 : the good, the bad & the ugly – Part 1 : Contract strategy changes
This webinar was given via the APM when the 4th edition of NEC - NEC4 - came out in 2017. This Part 1 focusses on the changes affecting contract strategy: the new members of family , changes to the payment options & changes to the secondary options.