NEC4: Facilities Management Contract

The NEC4 Facilities Management Contract (FMC) is intended to be used for the appointment of a service provider for a period of time to manage and provide a facility management service. The NEC4 suite of contracts helps to streamline processes, reduce the potential for problems and promotes the best practice in the procurement of facilities management services.

This is a prepublication version. If you purchase the prepublication contract, you will automatically receive an extended licence to the final Facilities Management Contract when it is launched in June.



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Contents
Core Clauses 

• 1 General 

• 2 The Service Provider’s main responsibilities 

• 3 Time 

• 4 Quality management 

• 5 Payment 

• 6 Compensation events 

• 7 Use of equipment, Plant and Materials 

• 8 Liabilities and insurance 

• 9 Termination 

Main Option Clauses 

• Option A: Priced contract with price list 

• Option C: Target contract with price list 

• Option E: Cost reimbursable contract 

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: Performance guarantee 

• Option X8: Undertakings to the Client or Others 

• Option X9: Transfer of rights (only used with Option X15) 

• Option X10: Information modelling 

• Option X11: Termination by the Client (not used with Option X19) 

• Option X12: Multiparty collaboration 

• Option X18: Limitation of liability 

• Option X19: Termination by either Party (not used with Option X11) 

• Option X21: Whole life cost 

• Option X23: Extending the Service Period 

• Option X24: The accounting periods 

• Option X27: Project Orders 

• Option X28: Change of Control


• ​Options X5–X7, X13–X14, X16–X17, X20, X22 and X25–X26 are not used 

• Option Y(UK)1: Project Bank Account 

• Option Y(UK)2: The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 

• Option Y(UK)3: The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 

• Option Z: Additional conditions of contract  

 

• Schedule of Cost Components 

• Short Schedule of Cost Components 

• Subcontract Data 

• Part one – Data provided by the Client 

• Part two – Data provided by the Service Provider 

• Index