Tony Bingham (鈥淜ISS and tell鈥�, 14 September, page 56) may like to know there is a subcontract that meets his requirements 鈥� one for which he and 黑洞社区 are partly responsible.

Among the documents sold online by ContractStore is one based on a winning form I submitted for a competition in 黑洞社区 for a one-page contract some years ago. Tony was one of the judges.

If this is too simple for the Olympic Delivery Authority, it should try the JCT Constructing Excellence Contract. This is an enlarged version of the Be Collaborative Contract, which originated from a meeting of the Reading Construction Forum to discuss Sir John Egan鈥檚 suggestion that contracts could be replaced by simple purchase orders.

At that meeting, I suggested it would be feasible to develop a purchase order with a short set of terms and conditions that could be used by all parties. The terms got expanded a bit over the years by drafting committees. Stripped back to its essentials, though, it would meet Bingham鈥檚 criteria.

Giles Dixon, ContractStore

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