PW-CF6:Employer liability and insurance provisions revised to reflect what is available in the market following discussions with Insurance Brokers; and Additional provision in REA (4 February 2011) included.

FTS6:Minor changes have been made to the Schedule in relation to insurance.

The Public Works Contract for Early Collaboration is a new contract which is being added to the suite of Public Works Contracts. This contract is intended for use on large projects (e.g. over €100 million), or technically complex projects on which Contractor input is required at an early stage. It can only be used if the Government’s Construction Contracts Committee has given approval to do so which will be on a contract by contract basis.

PW-CF1 – PW-CF5: A number of minor amendments have been made which include the following:

• Greater clarity is given to the position regarding background information so as to confirm original intention;
• The definition of ‘lands made available’ has changed;
• A requirement for records included;
• Changes to Programme Contingency;
• Disputing an ER’s decision has a finite period;
• Tighter provisions included in regard to time to submit final statement in order to comply with original intention;
• Employer liability and insurance provisions revised to reflect what is available in the market following discussions with Insurance Brokers;
• Additional provision in REA (4 February 2011) included.

FTS1 –FTS5:

Apart from a change to text relating to disputes in the Form of Tender; minor changes have been made to the Schedule which include insurance, weather measurement and named specialists in the Schedule.

Minor amendments have been made to the Instructions to Tender to allow the award criteria to be either on: (i) a MEAT basis; or (ii) lowest price only.

‘Section 4 – Employers Representative’ has been amended.

Footnote 1 has been removed.

The default for Tender Price in the Form of Tender has been set to ‘excluding all VAT’.

Invitation to Tender letters (ITTW1 to ITTW3) – form fields inserted.

Form of Tender and Schedule (Works) FTS1 to FTS5 – The default for Tender Price in the Form of Tender has set to ‘excluding all VAT’. Schedule Part 1 H ‘is not’ which had been omitted as an option has also been added to the drop-down menu in FTS2 to FTS5.

GN 2.3 – Procurement Process for Works Contractors – Page 30 – Text correction for ‘Use this Form of Tender …’ for PW-CF 5 to PW-CF8.

GN 1.4 – Procurement and Contract Strategy for Public Works Contracts – Page 26 – correction to text in ‘Definition of Small Projects’.

Page 59 – Section relating to ‘If the budget is exceeded – action post-award’ – the omission of ‘not’ from the last line of the paragraph has been corrected.

Minor amendment has been made to the signature box: APPENDIX A: QC1; QC2; QC3 and QC4.