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NEC4 Contract Preparation

Choose the contract and its Options, then write the Contract Data. You build your own contract strategy as you go.

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Waleed Tariq

Taught by Waleed Tariq, an NEC4 and FIDIC contract specialist on major infrastructure programmes, who has trained people in NEC4 across several countries.

About Waleed
Module 1 cover: The NEC4 familyModule 1 is free to try
9lessons
2 h 45 minof study
28quick checks
5stages in the course map

2 h 45 min in five stages

Minutes of study in each stage of the course map
  • Choose the contract · 37 min
  • Pick the Options · 55 min
  • Draft the documents · 36 min
  • Tender · 18 min
  • Your strategy · 18 min

What you will be able to do

Prepare NEC4 contracts that hold up once work starts

Choose the contract

Pick the right NEC4 contract for each relationship on a project.

Choose the Options

Decide the main Option and the secondary Options, with a reason for each.

Draft the Contract Data and Scope

Avoid the entries and gaps that turn into arguments later.

Assess tenders

Test every tender with a model compensation event, then set up the subcontracts.

Course map

Nine lessons in five stages

Take them in order or start with the stage you need. Module 1 is free to try.

1 · Choose the contract37 min
01Free19 minThe NEC4 family: which contract for which relationship
0218 minProcurement strategy: the questions to answer first
2 · Pick the Options55 min
0319 minThe main Options: how the Contractor is paid
0418 minW and Y Options: what the law and the location decide
0518 minX Options and Z clauses: what to add and what to leave out
3 · Draft the documents36 min
0618 minContract Data parts one and two: the entries that cause trouble later
0718 minScope and Site Information: drafting that avoids argument
4 · Tender18 min
0818 minTender assessment and subcontracts
5 · Your strategy18 min
0918 minYour contract strategy

On the project

Aldermere Water prepares its scheme while you prepare yours

The course follows Aldermere Water through 2024 and 2025, up to the day the works contract is signed. In each lesson you answer the same questions for your own project.

Option C

Dana Whitfield picks Option C with banded share ranges, and W1 because the UK Construction Act does not apply.

14

All 14 Z clauses proposed by the legal team come out.

2

The Scope review misses two problems. Both come back as compensation events in 2026.

92.58

A model compensation event tests every tender. Merrow Vale wins on 92.58 points.

Inside the lessons

What a lesson looks like

A lesson screen on the six main Options of the ECC
Module 3. The six main Options side by side, with who carries the cost risk in each.
The strategy builder in Module 9
Module 9. You answer the same questions for your own project, and your contract strategy builds as you go.
A quick check on procurement strategy
Quick checks. Two questions after each section, with the reason shown as soon as you answer.

Who it is for

People who prepare NEC4 contracts

For Client teams who prepare NEC4 contracts, on the project side or the commercial side. It also suits contractors who want to read a Client's choices.

Your answers carry from lesson to lesson in your browser. The last lesson brings them together as your contract strategy, with the reason for every choice, ready to print.

Clause references are to the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract, June 2017 with amendments January 2023, unless another NEC4 contract is named. Independent material. It is not published or endorsed by NEC. The project and the people are invented.