2019, best wishes from AfiTaC!
AfiTaC wishes all the readers of its blog on Commercial & Contractual issues the best for 2019!
This post includes some of our intentions for this year.
AfiTaC wishes all the readers of its blog on Commercial & Contractual issues the best for 2019!
This post includes some of our intentions for this year.
This article looks at what startups and SMEs can do regarding integrity. Simple steps, adapted to SMEs, to get the benefits from a robust integrity approach. Society is changing; Don’t be left behind !
This article analyses whether companies of the same group can participate to and compete against each other in the same public tender and what are the consequences and best practices.
On the road to achieving your company’s outcomes, some hurdles have to be taken. Contract Risk Scoring tools are there to identify the commercial & contractual hurdles that may stop you from achieving your outcomes. They allow you to take consistent decisions: Go/No Go decisions, mitigation actions, acceptable liability levels, provisions, margin levels etc. Please read this post for more details.
This post gives the results from the the first real month for our blog AfiTaC.com (after 3 months’ of starting-up).
April has brought massive growth for this blog on international Tenders and Contracts.
A dispute adjudication board (DAB) aims to stop disputes over FIDIC contracts ending up in commercial arbitration. This post gives further information about the members of a DAB, their expected behaviour and their decision.
Contract Risk Scoring is a hot topic. IACCM is actively promoting it. But, as this subject is quite new for many of us, we’ll all have a couple of questions. Here below we provide the answers to the most asked questions on the topic.
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Unless less you are a contract expert with a solid experience and capacity to compare, in your head, against benchmark contracts, you will have a hard time to give a solid opinion on any contract and identify risk areas after a first reading,
This articles proposes a free tool to analyse contracts. For twenty questions, carefully chosen to cover the whole spectrum, the risk level of the answers is positioned on a scale from 0 to 5.
Based on the report that will be provided, you can then set-up a Risk Review board.
More than 30 years have past since the launch of FIDIC 1987, “yellow book”.
In the meanwhile, FIDIC has published newer versions: the well-known 1999 version and a fresh update at the end of 2017.
This article is a reflection on whether it still makes sense to use the 1987 versions.