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Contract Management for Ship Construction, Repair, & Design Course Outline
Some topics which you may expect to be covered during the Contract Management project training course include the following:
DAY 1
Project Formation Utilizing Principles of Contract Management
- Unique contracting characteristics of the marine industry
- Identification of owner's rep's functional responsibilities throughout performance
- Principles of contract management applied to the marine industry
- Development of spreadsheets to track all contract communications
- Nine case studies on mismanagement of ship repair, construction and design
- Shipyard's development of estimate and bid
- Analysis of the causes of mismanagement
- Identification of engineering, regulatory and classification-related responsibilities
- Chronology of contracts from formation to close-out after the warranty ends
- Pre-signing contract management, bid package formation, contract development
- Meetings and other pre-contract communications which affect contract workscope
- Contract signing, pricing review and schedule review
- Defining all of the contract deliverables
- Project kick-off meeting agenda items
- Advance development of mechanisms to avoid prolonged disputes
DAY 2
Negotiating, Pricing & Scheduling
- Examples of successful and other changes
- Choosing a negotiator or negotiating team
- How timing affects the cost of changes
- Lead times and durations for change work
- Identification of real change in workscope
- Identifying schedule impacts of changes
- Change work as a substitute for basic work
- Determining delay entitlements for changes
- Risk assessment and risk syndication
- Competition for change work
- Engineering and procurement for changes
- The shipyard's view on indirect costs
- Identification of all involved crafts
- Identifying overlooked billable personnel
- Support services for change work
- Estimating change's non-productive effects
- Obtaining advance pricing commitments
- Reliance on OFE/GFE commitments
- Limiting negotiation authority for changes
- Dealing with mandatory changes
- Hazardous waste removal change orders
- Time and material changes
- Identifying the non-obvious scope of work
- Identifying/neutralizing negotiating tactics
- Credits for canceled or replaced basic work
- Twelve negotiating techniques
- Shipyard's vs. ship owner's estimates
- Use of THE CHECK LIST before making commitments
DAY 3
Project Control Through Application of Principles & Proven Techniques
- Translating the contract into routine procedures and communications
- Owner-furnished information, equipment
- Identifying standards for inspection or rejection of workmanship
- Management of owner's secondary contacts and shipyard's sub-contracts
- Drawings and bills of material
- Early identification of potential disputes and their quick resolution
- Classification and Coast Guard approvals
- Inspection deficiency reports-origination and follow-up
- Schedule development, monitoring and updating-selecting CPN or Gantt
- Distributed change-order authority
- Delays-Excusable, compensable, non-excused and concurrent
- Warranty and incomplete items
- Responding to failures by the other party to fulfill its obligations
- Vessel delivery and re-delivery procedures
- Owner's review of contractor's drawings
- Financial and insurance matters
- Review of contractor equipment selections
- Monitoring contract deliverables lists
- Closing out the contract
