NEC4: Term Service Subcontract
This contract should be used for the appointment of a subcontractor for a period of time to manage and provide a service where the contractor has been appointed under an NEC4 main contract.
- 1 General
- 2 The Subcontractor’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 subcontract with price list
- Option C: Target subcontract with price list
- 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 X8: Undertakings to the Client or Others
- Option X10: Information modelling
- Option X11: Termination by the Contractor (not used with Option X19)
- Option X12: Multiparty collaboration (not used with Option X20)
- Option X13: Performance bond
- Option X17: Low service damages
- Option X18: Limitation of liability
- Option X19: Termination by either Party (not used with Option X11)
- Option X20: Key Performance Indicators (not used with Option X12)
- Option X21: Whole life cost
- Option X23: Extending the Subcontract Service Period
- Option X24: The accounting periods
- 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 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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