Advanced Contract Administration: The Legal Aspects
In this advance contract administration course you gain the knowledge and skills necessary to perform the critical duties associated with the administration of contracts.
You'll explore the competencies appropriate for advanced level of contract administration as well as the government's complex clauses and requirements. Most administrative actions are based upon the rights and obligations as defined in the General Provisions clauses of contracts. The contractor, however, cannot lose sight of the basic contractual purpose - to perform the needed work.
In this course you'll find answers you need - best forum to challenge a contracting officer's decision, how to use contract tools to avoid mitigation risks, know what are the permissible limits of a charge order, understand the contractor's site inspection obligations, differences between compensable delays and non-compensable delays, the scope of price adjustments, standard quality assurance procedures, how to assess excess cost of reprocurement against the default contractors and what is required of both the government and contractor before making payment.
Benefits
- Find out how distinguish between claims and other requests for payment
- Be able to apply the rules of contract interpretation
- Learn how to apply risk allocation to government contracts
- Develop an understanding of the contract modification process as well as differentiating among actual changes, constructive changes and cardinal changes
- Find out how to identify and distinguish between various types of differing site conditions
- Learn how to apply work suspension, stop work order and government delay of work clauses
- Develop insights into types of contract adjustments available for delays
- Learn the objectives of pricing of adjustments
- Gain insights into the different levels of quality assurance
- Find out how to properly terminate contracts
- Recognize what conditions constitute contract default
- Find out how to properly submit a request for payment and process that request.
Major Topics
- Introduction: The Legal Aspects of Contract Administration
- Disputes
- Contract Interpretation
- Risk Allocation
- Contract changes
- Differing Site Conditions
- Delays
- Pricing of Adjustments
- Inspection, Acceptance/Warranties
- Default Termination
- Termination for Convenience
- Payment and Discharge
2 days/1.4 CEUs awarded
