Commercial Contracts for Projects

How will I benefit?

  • You are involved in preparing bids or evaluating tenders and want to improve your strategic approach to winning work
  • You negotiate, manage or oversee research consultancy contracts and want to reduce risk by strengthening agreements at the pre-award stage
  • You want to better understand contractual obligations, liability, intellectual property and risk allocation in the commercial environment
  • You are looking to improve project profitability and outcomes by making more informed contractual and commercial decisions

Who should attend?

  • Apply the fundamentals of contract law and intellectual property law to maximise your contribution to the process
  • Confidently agree, negotiate or dispute your own contracts
  • Think more strategically when preparing bid submissions or evaluating tenders
  • Increase likelihood of successfully winning submitted bids and making the right supplier choice
  • Anticipate, identify and manage potential risks, both pre- and post-contract award

Course Outline / Key Topics

  • Basic principles of English contract law
  • Process of evaluating obligations, liability and risk in a contract
  • Express terms – Supplier’s liability
  • Express terms – Buyer’s liability
  • Other core express terms
  • Intellectual property