PROCUREMENT AND TENDERING ; CONTRACT

PRACTICE ;
CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION
1. What is Novation?
2. Difference between Assignment and Nomination
3. What is PPC2000?
4. What are the impact due to nonstandard form of contract
5. What is meant by Frustration
6. What would be the validity of Tender bond?
7. What are the various types FIDIC form of contracts
8. What is Tangible & Intangible assets?
9. Basic requirement to make contract
10.Contents of Tender Evaluation Report
11.In what ways contract can be ended?
12.How will you cost for variations?
13.Provide some examples of PPE
14.What is PPE?
15.How will you review the amended contract conditions?

16. What are the different forms of FIDIC

17. How you will utilize contingencies
18. Role of Contracts Administrator
19. What are procedures and documents to be verified before issuing Final accounts statement
20. Why there is EOT provisions in all contracts
21. What is Loss and Expenses Claims
22. Why contingencies are allowed in the contract
23. Risk reporting techniques
24. What is Time bar ( Time Limits) ( In Post Contract)
25. What are the financial statements that you will ask from the contractor to prequalify?
26. What you will do prior to negotiation
27. What do you know about New York Convention
28. What is concurrent delays
29. Why PII is taken
30. What is collateral warranty
31. Different methods of evaluating EOT
32. What is Target Cost Contracting
33. What is Two stage tendering
34. What you will check in Two Stage Tendering
35. How you will prequalify Contractor?
36. Requirements for paying material onsite and off-site
37. What mechanism you will advise to the client to approve material on site, when there is no such
provision in the original contract
38. What you will do if there is a revised drawing issued by the Engineer, in case of Lump sum contract
and in case of re-measured contract
39. What is P.C sum and Provisional sum

40. What you will include during interim valuation certificate

41. What are the duties and responsibilities of Employer
42. What are the rights of Contractor under FIDIC, if the Employer has delayed the payments
43. Procedures to be followed under FIDIC for termination and suspension
44.How do you do a team management for the project
45.What are the risk associated in a refurbishment work (referring to CA )
46.How did you allocate Risk in your pre-tender estimate for the refurbishment work
47.How does a Contractor allocate risk in his for such work BOQ
48.How do you allocate for Risk while preparing a cost plan
49.What are provisional sums
50.How do you spend provisional sums, how did you spend in your project.
51.What are PC sums? What are they associated with
52.Tell me different types of procurement
53.Differentiate between management contracting and construction management
54.What is a tender bond? Why do you require it? Did you obtain a tender bond in your
project?
55.What are the other bonds which you are aware of and which all did you ask in your
project.
56.What is an appendix to tender
57.What is the validity of a performance bond
58.How can you check the Employers finance? What if the employer doesnt provide it?
59.Can an Employer encash a performance bond? does he need to tell the Contractor that
he is going to encash it

60. How you will avoid disputes in the project

61.Define ADR
62.tell different types of ADR which you are aware

63.Differentiate between adjudication and arbitration

64.What is DAB in FIDIC
65.can you keep an Engineer as a DAB
66.How are disputes dealt under FIDIC
67.if you keep provisional sums in a project will the project amount increase or decrease
68. What are the different types of contract?
69. In UAE where other than FIDIC is used?
70. FIDIC Rainbow books
71. Difference between yellow and orange FIDIC book
72. What is fidic green book?
73. Which type of fidic you will advise for small D&B contract?
74. How will you evaluate the final account?
75. What is discharge letter?
76. Differences between LOI and LOA
77. Can LOI be challenged at court?
78. What are the different types for procurement routes & explain?

79.

How will you decide the tender period?

80. Differences between the FIDIC 1987 and 1999

81.What is PI insurance
82.What is run-off cover
83.How the supply chain management will help in sustainable development?
84.Procedure of dispute resolution in your Contract? Engr decision 84 days, within 70 days
notice and 56 days amicable settlement then arbitration

85.Nowadays there are lot of default of the payment by the employer whether the
contractor has to go to litigation or Arbitration (there is no dispute here then which one
you will approach)?
86.If the Contractor submit a claim for extension how you will evaluate?
87.Cash flow? Very detailed way?
88.What is Partnering?
89.Disadvantages of partnering concepts?
90.Is it applicable in UAE?
91.Whether you will recommend in UAE and why?
92.What is Contra proferendum? Ambiguity in a document is constructed in the way least
favorable to the person who prepared the document.
93.Different types of Contracts
94.Types of FIDIC forms of Contract (rainbow editions)
95.Difference between FIDIC 1987 & 1999
96.Difference between LOI & LOA? Unilateral assurance intended to enter in to the Contract,
Why LOI is issued
97.Quantum Meruit
98.What is Contract Agreement?
99.

Time at large
100.

Explain about MEAT? Tender based on the optimum combination of

the whole life

costs and benefits of the project.

101.

What are all the aspects you will look into for prequalification?

102.

How will you select the Contractor

103.
104.
105.
106.

Whether QS will do technical evaluation

How you will analyse financially
Tender evaluation
Purpose of standard form of Contract

107.

Do you encourage BOQ as the part of Tender document? .expected

answer.easy for the tender evaluation. For design & Built only schedule
of rates (no detailed BOQ)
108.

What are different kinds of procurement methods you are aware of?

109.

How do you prepare Tender reports? Explain the process/Steps in Tender

reports
110.

What is two stage tendering?

111.

How you do two stage tendering?

112.

Explain tendering procedure?

113.

What are different kinds of Tendering?

114.

Explain Selective tendering?

115.

What is the first step in selective tendering?

116.

Explain the process of pre-qualification?

117.

How do you prepare pre-qualification format? What all should be included?

118.

How do you rank pre-qualification documents?

119.

How do you compare financial positions of Contractor?

120.

What is document you require to evaluate financial status of a company?

121.

How ranking is given in Tender reports? What is the method of giving

ranking?
122.

How did you allocate Risk in your pre-tender estimate for the

refurbishment work?
123.

How does a Contractor allocate risk in his for such work BOQ?

124.

How do you allocate for Risk while preparing a cost plan?

125.

What are provisional sums?

126.

How do you spend provisional sums, how did you spend in your project. ?

127.

What are PC sums? What are they associated with?

128.

Tell me different types of procurement?

129.

Differentiate between management contracting and construction

management?
130.

What is a tender bond? Why do you require it? Did you obtain a

tender bond in your project??

131.

What are the other bonds which you are aware of and which all did

you ask in your project. ?

132.

What is an appendix to tender

133.

What is the validity of a performance bond

134.

How can you check the Employers finance? What if the employer doesnt

provide it?
135.

Can an Employer encash a performance bond? does he need to tell

the Contractor that he is going to encash it

136.

What is DAB in FIDIC

137.

can you keep an Engineer as a DAB

138.

How are disputes dealt under FIDIC

139.

if you keep provisional sums in a project will the project amount

increase or decrease
140.
141.
142.
143.

What type of procurement routes that you know?

What is value management and when does it start?
Give an example of value engineering exercise that you did in the

past
What are the type of FIDIC conditions of contract?
144.
What is the difference in FIDIC 1999 and 1987? give 3 difference
145.
What is the condition of dispute resolution in your contract?
146.
If an owner wants to build a small villa what type of contract form that
you will suggest?
147.
What are the contents of Tender Evaluation Report?
148.
How will you do the financial evaluation of the tenders in your

149.

business of dredging?
What documents are needed to certify material off site?

150.

If the variation order is not finalised but the work is carried out by the

contractor how much payment will you certify and why?

151.
What is the percentage that you will give to technical bid and
152.

financial bid to evaluate tenders?

There is a refurbishment scope. What is the best suited procurement

method?
153.

Is delay penalty legally possible in UAE?

154.

If no, then how it is settled?

155.

Why schedule of rates are provided in a BOQ?

156.

How a D&B contract is priced? (By a contractor).

157.

How you evaluate the risks while tendering?

158.

How such risks are incorporated in the tender?

159.

What are the difference between and estimating and tendering?

160.

What is a cash flow?

161.

What is run-off cover?

162.

What is the period for that?

163.

How BOQ helps the contractor while execution of the job?

164.

When do you require a PI cover?

165.

What is your understanding about PI Insurance?

166.

What is the difference between damages and delay penalty?

167.

Is delay penalty legally possible in UAE?

168.

If no, then how it is settled?

169.

What are the main heads in a prolongation claim?

170.

What is a discharge letter and when it is issued and for what?

171.
172.

How do you value variation?

Can the Contractor reject the variation?

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How do you prepare budget and what are the contents of it?
Which standard of accounting used in UAE?
How do you control the Quality in project?
What are the different procurement routes?
177.
What is the difference between Management Contracting and
Construction Management?
178.
What is the clause for claims in FIDIC 1987?
179.
List two differences between RTA contract & FIDIC 1987?
180.
What is Value Engineering?
181.
How do you arrive Labour Rate in your projects?
182.
What is Life Cycle Costing?
183.
How do you calculate LCC?
184.
What are the forms of FIDIC?
185.
When you calculate the duration of different options which
programe did you use?
186.
What factors an organization should address when the cost
becomes higher than anticipated?
187.
Give an example of an environmental consideration addressed at
your site?
188.
How liquidated damages are applied and how the amount is
determined?
189.
Explain how would you go about analyzing a Tender Return?
190.
Explain the steps involved on Alternative Dispute Resolution?
191.
What are the main components of a claim or how you would
go about dealing/assessing such a claim?
192.
What is mean by Design Risk and how you would allocate it?
193.
Describe the main difference between a cost saving and Value
Engineering?
194.
Explain what and how to go about preparing a business plan?
195.
What is the majority of elements commonly found within Tender
documents?
196. How

do you advise client on choosing right procurement route?

197. Describe
198. What
199. How

dispute resolution procedure in your contract.

are the disadvantages of Construction Management procurement route?

would you bring the cost of building 3 years ago up to present?