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❑ A contract negotiation is a discussion between the contracting
parties to finalize the contract's provisions. Clients,
contractors, subcontractors, professional consultants, and
suppliers are instances of these parties. Because these
parties' interests in the form and content of the contract are
often divergent and occasionally contradictory, these
discussions usually include some degree of compromise to
reach a final contract that is acceptable to all parties.
❑ The pre-contract phase includes the following activities
(Dennis 2010):
Inception: meeting the client, receiving the client’s brief,
initial design ideas
Feasibility: formulating the design brief, including
contributions from all the consultants, considering basic
options
Outline proposals: establishing a concept in principle from
the design brief requirements, obtaining outline advice from
interested authorities
Scheme design: developing an agreed idea into a
coherent working proposition, obtaining approvals from
interested authorities
Detail design: fully developing the idea, incorporating
specialist design work for structures, electrical and heating
installations, etc.
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