NEC4: Professional Service Subcontract

This contract should be used for the appointment of a subcontractor to provide a professional service to a contractor or consultant who has been appointed under an NEC4 main contract.

Core Clauses

• 1 General
• 2 The Subcontractor’s main responsibilities
• 3 Time
• 4 Quality management
• 5 Payment
• 6 Compensation events
• 7 Rights to material
• 8 Liabilities and insurance
• 9 Termination

 
Main Option Clauses

• Option A: Priced subcontract with activity schedule
• Option C: Target subcontract
• Option E: Cost reimbursable subcontract

 
Resolving and Avoiding Disputes

• Option W1
• Option W2

 
Secondary Option Clauses

• Option X1: Price adjustment for inflation (used only with Options A and C)
• Option X2: Changes in the law
• Option X3: Multiple currencies (used only with Option A)
• Option X4: Ultimate holding company guarantee
• Option X5: Sectional Completion
• Option X6: Bonus for early Completion
• Option X7: Delay damages
• Option X8: Undertakings to Others
• Option X9: Transfer of rights
• Option X10: Information modelling
• Option X11: Termination by the Contractor
• Option X12: Multiparty collaboration (not used with Option X20)
• Option X13: Performance bond
• Option X18: Limitation of liability
• Option X20: Key Performance Indicators (not used with Option X12)

Options X14–X17 and X19 are not used

• Option Z: Additional conditions of subcontract

 

• Schedule of Cost Components
• Short Schedule of Cost Components
• Subcontract Data
• Part one – Data provided by the Contractor
• Part two – Data provided by the Subcontractor
• Index

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