Live Online Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) Training Course
Live online, instructor-led · next cohort Oct 26, 2026 · from USD 1,700
Disputes on construction and infrastructure projects are often set in motion before the first excavator arrives: an unsuitable standard form, Particular Conditions that shift risk ambiguously, an Engineer appointed without clear delegated authority, or no agreed way of logging notices from day one. Over ten days you plan and then deliver a FIDIC contract from both the Employer's and the Contractor's side. You compare the 2017 Red, Yellow and Silver Books with the Pink Book used on many lender-funded works, prepare Contract Data and Particular Conditions, and build an administration plan covering roles, correspondence, records and meetings.
Week two turns to execution under pressure. Applied labs cover programme review, extension of time and delay analysis, valuing variations, interim payment certificates, the Clause 20 claims procedure with its 28-day notice requirement, Engineer's determinations and DAAB referrals, then taking over and the final account. An integrated project on a road or water contract ties it together. Contract managers, quantity surveyors, resident engineers, project managers, procurement officers and in-house lawyers in public agencies, consultancies and contracting firms will benefit. You leave able to set up administration that stands up to scrutiny. Classroom, online and in-house delivery lead to a CPD-accredited certificate.
At a Glance
How Live Online Training Works
Live online training, led by a trainer in real time, for participants anywhere.
More about live online training →- Format
- Live online, instructor-led
- Duration
- Mon - Fri (10 Days)
- Fee
- USD 1,700 (KES 160,000)
- Next start dates
- Oct 26, 2026, Nov 23, 2026, Dec 21, 2026
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion
- What you need
- A computer with a reliable internet connection, a webcam and a headset
About this course
Governments, utilities and development finance institutions across Africa procure roads, bridges, water schemes, power plants and public buildings on FIDIC conditions, and lenders frequently require their use. Yet many of the disputes that later reach a Dispute Avoidance/Adjudication Board or arbitration can be traced to choices made at the planning stage: a form that does not match where design responsibility sits, amendments that contradict the General Conditions, incomplete Contract Data, or a site team that never agreed how notices and records would be handled. Sound administration is planned, resourced and systematic rather than improvised once problems appear.
The Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) Training Course follows a works contract from procurement strategy to final payment. Days one to five cover choosing between the main FIDIC books, drafting Particular Conditions, the roles of Employer, Engineer and Contractor, mobilisation and commencement, the contract administration plan, programme and progress control, measurement, variations and interim payment. Days six to ten deepen these skills through labs on delay analysis and extension of time, cost claims and quantum, the claims and determination procedure of the 2017 editions, completion, defects and the final account, and dispute avoidance and termination, closing with an integrated planning project.
Participants work throughout on a realistic contract file containing programmes, correspondence, site records and payment applications, taking the parts of Employer, Engineer and Contractor in turn. Each person finishes with a contract administration plan, a set of registers and templates, and a worked claim and determination to adapt for their own projects.
Training Objectives
Participants completing the programme will be able to:
- Select the FIDIC form that fits a project's design responsibility, risk profile and source of funding.
- Draft Contract Data and Particular Conditions that amend the General Conditions without creating conflicts.
- Plan the mobilisation phase, including performance security, advance payment, site access and the Engineer's delegations.
- Establish a contract administration plan with registers for notices, instructions, variations, claims and correspondence.
- Review a Contractor's programme and apply recognised delay analysis methods to extension of time entitlement.
- Value variations and prepare or check interim payment applications and certificates.
- Manage claims through the Clause 20 procedure and the Engineer's agreement or determination under the 2017 Red Book.
- Plan taking over, the Defects Notification Period, the final account and the avoidance or resolution of disputes.
What you'll learn
Key Takeaways
Each participant leaves with practical products and skills, including:
- A form selection matrix comparing the Red, Yellow, Silver and Pink Books for typical project types.
- A Particular Conditions review checklist for spotting risky or conflicting amendments.
- A contract administration plan template setting out roles, delegations, meeting schedules and document control rules.
- Ready-to-use registers for notices, instructions, variations, claims and payment certificates.
- A worked extension of time assessment using time impact analysis on a sample programme.
- A model notice of claim, fully detailed claim and Engineer's determination drafted in the labs.
- A close-out checklist covering taking over, defects, the final statement and release of securities.
- A personal plan for strengthening administration on a current or upcoming contract.
Training Methodology
Every session is anchored in one contract file that develops over the ten days, with participants switching between Employer, Engineer and Contractor roles. The approach combines:
- Clause-by-clause briefings that link each FIDIC provision to its practical consequences on site
- Drafting workshops on Particular Conditions, notices, claims and determinations
- Delay analysis and payment labs using sample programmes and Excel valuation sheets
- Role plays of a kick-off meeting, a progress meeting and a DAAB hearing
- Field cases from road, water, energy and building projects
- Peer review of each team's registers and administration plan
- A capstone exercise in which teams plan and defend the administration of a complete contract
Day 1: The FIDIC Suite and Contract Strategy
- How FIDIC conditions are built: General Conditions, Particular Conditions and Contract Data
- Red, Yellow and Silver Books: design responsibility and risk allocation compared
- The Pink Book, Green Book and Emerald Book and when each is used
- Key changes between the 1999 and 2017 editions
- Procurement routes, packaging and the choice of contract form
- Lender requirements on development bank funded projects
- Contract documents and their order of priority
- Exercise: matching three project scenarios to a FIDIC form
Day 2: Preparing the Contract Documents
- Completing the Contract Data: dates, percentages, delay damages and limits
- Drafting Special Provisions that amend the General Conditions
- FIDIC's Golden Principles for drafting Particular Conditions
- Employer's Requirements and specifications in design-build contracts
- Bills of quantities, measurement rules and pricing documents
- Securities, insurances and limitation of liability provisions
- Tender evaluation, clarifications and contract award
- Exercise: reviewing a set of Particular Conditions for risky amendments
Day 3: Mobilisation, Commencement and the Administration Plan
- From Letter of Acceptance to Commencement Date
- Performance security, advance payment guarantee and insurance checks
- Site access and the Employer's early obligations
- The Engineer's duties, authority and delegation to assistants
- Building the contract administration plan: roles, responsibilities and approvals
- Notice requirements and correspondence protocols
- Document control, contemporary records and site diaries
- Kick-off meeting simulation and first-month checklist
Day 4: Programme, Progress and Time Control
- Programme requirements under Sub-Clause 8.3 and the Engineer's review
- Baseline programmes, critical path and float
- Monthly progress reports and progress meetings
- Advance warning and early identification of delay risks
- Rate of progress, acceleration and suspension
- Delay damages and their contractual limits
- Sections, milestones and phased completion
- Exercise: reviewing a Contractor's baseline programme
Day 5: Measurement, Variations and Interim Payment
- Measurement and valuation under Clause 12 of the Red Book
- Variation by instruction and by request for proposal
- Valuing variations using contract rates, new rates and dayworks
- Provisional sums and adjustments for changes in cost and legislation
- Applications for interim payment and the Interim Payment Certificate
- Advance payment recovery, retention and delayed payment
- Cash-flow forecasting for Employer and Contractor
- Exercise: certifying a monthly payment application with disputed items
Day 6: Delay Analysis and Extension of Time Lab
- Extension of time entitlement under Sub-Clause 8.5 of the 2017 Red Book
- As-planned versus as-built, impacted as-planned, time impact and windows analysis
- The SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol as a reference point
- Concurrent delay and the approach taken in the 2017 editions
- Disruption and loss of productivity
- Lab: running a time impact analysis on a sample road project programme
- Presenting delay evidence to the Engineer
- Assessing a Contractor's extension of time submission
Day 7: Claims, Quantum and the Engineer's Determination
- The Clause 20 procedure: notice within 28 days and a fully detailed claim within 84 days
- Time bars and the consequences of a late notice
- Contemporary records as the foundation of entitlement
- Quantifying cost, cost plus profit and prolongation claims
- Employer's claims, including delay damages and the cost of defects
- The Engineer's duty to agree or determine under Sub-Clause 3.7 and its time limits
- Notices of dissatisfaction and what follows them
- Lab: preparing a claim and drafting the Engineer's determination
Day 8: Completion, Defects and Final Account Field Case
- Tests on completion and handover planning
- Taking-Over Certificates for the Works and for Sections
- The Defects Notification Period and remedying defects
- The Performance Certificate and return of the performance security
- Statement at completion, Final Statement and Final Payment Certificate
- Retention release and settling outstanding claims
- Lessons learned reviews and contract performance records
- Field case: closing out a water supply contract with open variations
Day 9: Dispute Avoidance, DAAB Referrals and Termination
- Dispute avoidance through advance warning, informal assistance and joint problem solving
- Constituting a standing DAAB and its role in preventing disputes
- Referring a dispute to the DAAB and the decision process
- Amicable settlement and arbitration under Clause 21
- Suspension and termination by the Employer or the Contractor
- Exceptional Events under Clause 18 and their consequences
- Role play: a DAAB hearing on a delay and cost dispute
- Keeping the works moving while a dispute is resolved
Day 10: Integrated Contract Planning Project
- Team brief: a lender-funded infrastructure contract from award to completion
- Selecting the form and reviewing the Particular Conditions
- Drafting the full contract administration plan and registers
- Responding to a sequence of contract events under time pressure
- Defending the plan before a mock project board
- Facilitator and peer review against a contract administration checklist
- Personal action plan for a current or upcoming contract
- Course review and close
The course is aimed at professionals who prepare, administer or oversee construction and engineering contracts, including:
- Contract managers and contract administrators on works projects
- Resident engineers, Engineer's representatives and supervision consultants
- Quantity surveyors and cost engineers on both the Employer and Contractor side
- Project managers and planning engineers in contracting firms
- Procurement officers and tender committee members in road, water, energy and housing agencies
- In-house lawyers and legal officers handling construction contracts
- Project implementation unit staff on donor and development bank funded projects
- Commercial managers and claims specialists
- Engineers moving into contract management roles
Participants who attend all ten days and complete the drafting exercises, labs and integrated project receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.
It confirms completion of a structured training programme and is not a FIDIC qualification. The administration plan, registers and worked claim developed during the course give each participant a practical portfolio to show employers and clients.
Choose Where You Want to Learn
Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) Training Course Venues
KenyaNairobiNext Nov 9· 13 dates$3,000- KenyaMombasaNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,200
- KenyaNaivashaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,000
- KenyaKisumuNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,000
- KenyaMachakosNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,200
UgandaKampalaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,800
RwandaKigaliNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,800
TanzaniaArushaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$3,800- TanzaniaDodomaNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,600
- TanzaniaDar es SalaamNext Oct 26· 13 dates$4,000
- TanzaniaZanzibarNext Nov 16· 13 dates$5,200
NigeriaLagosNext Nov 16· 13 dates$5,600- NigeriaAbujaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$5,600
South AfricaPretoriaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$6,400- South AfricaJohannesburgNext Nov 2· 13 dates$6,800
- South AfricaCape TownNext Oct 26· 13 dates$7,600
UAEDubaiNext Oct 26· 13 dates$7,600
GhanaAccraNext Nov 16· 13 dates$9,000
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Frequently Asked Questions About Live Online Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) Training Course
Everything you need to know about this course before you register.
By the end of the Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) programme, you'll be able to select the fidic form that fits a project's design responsibility, risk profile and source of funding, draft contract data and particular conditions that amend the general conditions without creating conflicts, plan the mobilisation phase, including performance security, advance payment, site access and the engineer's delegations, and establish a contract administration plan with registers for notices, instructions, variations, claims and correspondence. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
The course is aimed at professionals who prepare, administer or oversee construction and engineering contracts, including: Contract managers and contract administrators on works projects, Resident engineers, Engineer's representatives and supervision consultants, Quantity surveyors and cost engineers on both the Employer and Contractor side, Project managers and planning engineers in contracting firms, Procurement officers and tender committee members in road, water, energy and housing agencies, In-house lawyers and legal officers handling construction contracts, Project implementation unit staff on donor and development bank funded projects, Commercial managers and claims specialists, and Engineers moving into contract management roles.
Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) Training Course typically runs as 10 Days. It's available as in-person classroom, live virtual, and in-house corporate training — every course can also be delivered on-site for your team on dates that suit you.
Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) Training Course is scheduled in-classroom in Nairobi, Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya, Naivasha, Kenya, and Kisumu, Kenya, and 14 other locations, plus a live interactive virtual classroom you can join from anywhere. Check the schedule panel above for exact upcoming dates and fees in each location.
The next live virtual cohort of Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) starts October 26, 2026, with new classroom cohorts also running on a rolling basis. Pick a date and location in the schedule panel above, then click "Register for the Course" — it takes a few minutes and your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
Yes — delegates who meet the attendance requirement receive a Certificate of Completion for Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) Training Course from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, issued in the name you register with, so double-check the spelling at checkout.
Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) Training Course is pitched at intermediate professionals. If you're unsure whether it's the right fit for your current role or background, message our training advisors before you register and they'll help you confirm.
Fees for Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) Training Course vary by delivery location and format and are shown in real time in the schedule panel above once you pick a date. Register 3 or more delegates on the same course together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically — larger cohorts can request a custom corporate quote.
Yes — Planning and Implementation of Contract Management & Administration (FIDIC) Training Course can be delivered on-site at your offices (or virtually for distributed teams), with case studies and examples tailored to your industry and the specific challenges your team is working through. Switch to the "In-House" tab in the schedule panel above to request a proposal.
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