Contracts Manager, Contracts specialist

Role & responsibilities

Role & Responsibilities:

• Bid evaluation.
• Preparing bidding documents, corrigendum for Contractors tender. Inviting tenders for Contracts.
• Understanding contractual terms and conditions and requirements in a bid document.
• Understand and prepare the conditions of Contract.
• Preparation of General Specification and Technical Specification of works Contract.
• Review and fix and deficits in the Specifications of the Contract.
• Preparing responses for bid queries, corrigendum.
• Use of FIDIC red book, yellow book, etc. to define the contractual terms.
• Drafting tender clauses/documents as per JICA Standard Bidding Procedures.
• Carry out technical evaluation of submitted Bids for each contract as per JICA procedures.
• Meeting with the internal teams on a regular basis to review progress, discuss problems and consider necessary changes in the Contract Document and provide the contractual remedies.
• Identifying potential problems and resolving the issues with the client in a timely order.
• Advising client of any works to be carried out under separate direct contract. Interpretation and administration of Conditions of Contract.
• Contractual issues from consultants and main client to be addressed.
• Preparing BOQ & cost estimate for the designs provided by client or its consultants.
• Review verify & optimize the BOQ provided by client or its Consultants.
• Review verify & optimize the cost variations that are incurred due to design changes or quantities variations due to site conditions in accordance with the change order procedure of client.
• Review designs and BOQ provided by the design consultants and suggest necessary changes.
• Prepare variation orders with inputs from consultants & vendors during construction in line with the change order procedure of client.
• Review & verify rate analysis for any non-schedule items submitted by the contractors & Approve vendor bills based on actual measurement & Engineering quantity & quality verification and certify bills for payment.
• Establish a cost control system to identify increase in costs both incurred and anticipated, so that timely action may be taken to remain in budget.
• Implementing stringent quality procedures to ensure the work quality life cycle.
• Prepare and maintain statements for monitoring project expenditures and providing monthly project cost reports.
• Certify bills through adequate check on site and compliance with contract conditions, periodic reconciliation of materials.

Preferred candidate profile

Contracts & Pre Contracts