Contract Services
Our role
Contract Services is a unit within Major Projects, Public Works.
We advise whole-of-government on contractual matters relating to the procurement and delivery of government building construction and maintenance projects in accordance with the:
- Queensland Procurement Policy
- Building Policy Framework (where applicable).
Our role includes:
- developing and maintaining the building construction and maintenance standard contracts, including conditions of offer or tender, for use on government building construction and maintenance projects
- providing procurement and contracting strategies and solutions for building construction and maintenance projects, including in response to project-specific requirements or constraints
- providing specialist advice and guidance on the use of the building construction and maintenance standard contracts to support quality, consistency, fairness and efficiency in government’s dealings with industry and the effective implementation of government’s building related policies
- managing claims, disputes, defaults, insolvencies and subcontractor’s charges on behalf of government, including
- contractual claims or disputes which concern the interpretation of clauses in the building construction and maintenance (BCM) standard contracts
- substantial breaches of contract which may lead to termination or take-over of the contract
- whole-of-government final accounting following contractor or consultant insolvency
- subcontractor’s charges made under Security of Payment legislation
- conversion or use of security that is not in the form of money or the exercising of set off rights across contracts.