Guide to JCT Design and Build Contract 2016

3 Documents

3.1 DB16 defines the ‘Contract Documents’ as being the agreement and conditions (i.e. the printed form), the employer’s requirements, the contractor’s proposals, the contract sum analysis and ‘(where applicable) the BIM Protocol’: these documents comprise the contract to which the parties are bound.

3.2 The articles of agreement and contract particulars must be completed carefully. All the information inserted must reflect that issued at tender stage, or agreed during post-tender negotiations. Ideally, the formal contract documents should be executed before the project commences on site. Normally, a contract is formed if there is a clear acceptance of a firm offer.¹ The contract, once executed, will supersede any conflicting provisions ...