CONSTRUCTION PROCUREMENT BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINE #C2 Construction Industry Development Board Pretoria Tel: 012 343 7136 or 012 481 9030 Fax: 012 343 7153 E-mail: cidb@cidb.org.za 1. Choosing an appropriate form of contract for engineering and construction works September 2005 Second edition of CIDB document 1010 Background The Green Paper on Creating an Enabling Environment for Reconstruction‚ Growth and Development in the Construction Industry has a vision for a construction
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CONTRACT OF LAW Contract can be defined as ‘an agreement enforceable by law’. In other words‚ a contract is an agreement made between two(2) parties or more which is legally binding between the parties. There are six (6) basic elements in the contract : 1. Offer refers to a proposal that is capable of being converted into an agreement by its acceptance. Section 2(a) of Contract Act 1950 provides that when a person signifies another his willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything‚ with
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Nature release THE ESSENTIALS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT SECOND EDITION The Essentials of Project Management Second Edition Dennis Lock Gower O Dennis Lock 2001 A l rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ l stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without the permission of the publisher. First published 1996 This edition published by Gower Publishing Limited Gower
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Contract Bundling 1. What is contract bundling? According to FAR 2.101 the definition of a bundled contract or bundling refers to the consolidation of two or more procurement requirements for goods or services previously provided or performed under separate smaller contracts into a solicitation of offers for a single contract that is likely to be unsuitable for award to a small business. What this really means is that contract bundling happens when two or more contracts intended for small businesses
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“Freedom of contract is the bedrock of English private law” Freedom of contract is defined as the: “Right of an adult to make a legally binding mutual agreement with one or more other persons‚ without governmental interference as to what type of obligations he or she can take upon himself or herself.”[1] English law has for a while now been known as believing in freedom of contract. This means that the state has not‚ normally‚ enforced legislation which has got in the way when it comes to the
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A stranger to a contract can’t sue…!!!! Submitted by:- Ankit Bhardwaj 091004 M.B.A. III sem. The basic answer to this question is ‘NO’‚ as the following literature supports and explains this fact effectively. A contract is an agreement between two or more parties that creates an obligation to do or not to do something. The parties
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Court Court of Common Pleas Citation(s) (1862) 11 Cb (NS) 869; [1862] EWHC CP J35; 142 ER 1037 Transcript(s) Full text of judgment Judge(s) sitting Willes J‚ Byles J and Keating J Felthouse v Bindley (1862) EWHC CP J 35‚ is the leading English contract law case on the rule that one cannot impose an obligation on another to reject one ’s offer. This is sometimes misleadingly expressed as a rule that "silence cannot amount to acceptance". Later the case has been rethought‚ because it appeared that
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international contract is a contract that has a foreign element‚ that is to say that the contract is in contact with one or more order (s) legal (s) abroad (s). Specifically‚ the foreign element may be resident abroad‚ a party to the contract‚ nationality‚ place of contract conclusion‚ and many other possibilities. The commercial contract is a contract for a commercial transaction or a contract made by a trader for the purposes of his trade. Therefore an international commercial contract is the addition
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Question 1 A Sydney tramway passenger was injured in a collision with another tram‚ which occurred after the driver collapsed at the controls. The plaintiff argued that the collision could have been avoided if the tramway authority had fitted the tram with a system known as `dead man’s handle’‚ a system in use on Sydney’s trains. According to my findings‚ Dead Man’s Handle refers to an old train device: the dead man’s handle. It was typically some form of switch that the driver would keep
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A type of contract‚ a legally binding agreement between two parties to do a certain thing‚ in which one side has all the bargaining power and uses it to write the contract primarily to his or her advantage[1]. Breach of Contract Common Breaches of Contract When any contract is made an agreement is formed between parties to carry out a service and payment for that service. If one of the parties fails to carry out their side of the agreement then the party can be said to be in breach of contract
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