Drafting, not just defending
Subcontracts I've drafted
Contract expertise runs both ways. As well as pursuing claims, I draft and negotiate the subcontracts that put major railway packages under contract — recently over USD 645M across three back-to-back agreements.
USD 435.5M
Comprehensive railway works package
Signalling, telecommunications, electrification and electromechanical works — with the civil interface — on a 130 km electrified standard-gauge line. Restructured from a single-package USD 240M agreement into a seven-work-package, fully back-to-back lump-sum subcontract, with work-package payment, nominated-entity provisions and interface-management protocols.
USD 128M
Earthworks & permanent structures
A WBS-priced railway subcontract with payment tied to 43 measurable work-breakdown items, a formation-level and structures-complete milestone regime, and full back-to-back linkage to a FIDIC Yellow Book main contract.
USD 82M
Civil works — 100 km railway section
A lump-sum civil-works subcontract over a 100 km section, with a phased, chainage-based milestone structure and a Phase-Adjustment-Notice mechanism that ties scope change to extension of time and liquidated damages — back-to-back throughout.
Parties and projects withheld for confidentiality; figures are contract values, exclusive of VAT.
What these agreements carry
The drafting disciplines behind the figures
Back-to-back risk allocation
Every obligation, relief and time-bar in the main contract finds its mirror in the subcontract — so no risk is silently absorbed between the two.
Payment mechanics
Lump-sum work packages or WBS-priced measurable items — payment structures that track real progress and leave no room for valuation disputes.
Milestone & liquidated-damages regimes
Chainage-based and completion-level milestones tied to the main-contract programme, with LD regimes that hold together when the programme moves.
Interface & nominated-entity protocols
Who hands what to whom, and when — interface-management and nominated-entity provisions that keep multi-package works coordinated on paper as well as on site.
Need a subcontract drafted — or a claim under one?
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