The range of services includes:
- Contractual / legal appraisal of Contract documents
- Devising Contract specific strategy for preserving and realisation of contractual / legal rights and entitlements.
The services offered include legal advice and drafting with respect to:
- Bid study, Bid protests,
- Standard form conditions of contract
- Conditions of tender/special terms
- Tender qualifications and limiting liability
- Risk assessments
- Contract insurances, bonds and sureties
- PPP/BOT and related contracts
- Joint venture formulation and drafting/settling pre bid JVs, Consortium Agreements, Supplementary Agreements
- Nominated/selected/domestic subcontracts
- Challenge to Bids, qualification issues
The range of services includes:
- Contractual / legal appraisal of Contract documents
- Devising Contract specific strategy for preserving and realisation of contractual / legal rights and entitlements.
The services at this stage demand constant involvement and include:
- Advising on setting up specific Contract Administration Procedures.
- Drafting and dealing with contractual correspondence
- Identification of potential dispute situation and steps to be taken during course of execution
- Advice on options available when faced with contractual difficulties (e.g. Unforeseen conditions/ variations/ delay/ disruption/ acceleration/ scheduled rates / subcontracts)
- Advice on payment issues (e.g. late payment or certification/ under-certifying/deductions from certificates etc.)
- Claims formulation and resolution (e.g. extensions of time/additional compensation/ damages)
- Demands for performance
- Advice on delay damages/penalty deductions
- Advice on project programming issues (e.g. critical paths/ concurrency/ delay analyses)
- Advice on project close-outs (e.g. Tests and commissioning/ taking-over certification/sectional completion issues/snagging/guarantee issues)
- Advice on Termination/Repudiation/Rescission of Contract
- Negotiation strategies, advice and representation
- Mediation forums
- Adjudication/DAB tribunals
- Domestic and international arbitration
- Litigation
- Programme for Higher Level Management– The need for enforcement of mechanism to preserve contractual / legal rights.
- Programme for Key Construction Officials – Awareness Programme for contractual / legal aspects in Construction Contracts.
- Programme for Contract Engineers / Managers – On specific topics – Contracts/ ADR/ Change Order Claims/ Delay disruptions/ Extension of Time/Guarantees and Bonds.

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