Central Queensland University: PPMP20011 Contract Case Study

This case study analyzes the best procurement route for Central Queensland University's (CQU) new campus in Melbourne. The project includes a lecture building, laboratories, a motel, and a conference hall. The document explores various procurement routes, including admeasurements, construction management, management contracting, and design-build, evaluating their advantages and disadvantages. The analysis concludes that the management contracting method is the most suitable for CQU, offering effective management of trade contracts. The study recommends assigning a supervisor to monitor construction activities, ensuring the project meets the university's requirements and constraints. References from relevant project management literature are included.

Central Queensland University
PPMP20011: Contract & Procurement management

About the project
 Central Queensland
university aims at
developing a campus at
Melbourne
 That will include a lecture’s
building for accommodating
300 student,
 laboratories for engineering
and computer
 A motel with 50 rooms
 Conference hall for
accommodating 250 people.

Procurement routes for construction
 The different procurement routes that are
available for construction project
management are as follows:
 procurement routes for construction
 Admeasurements contract:
 Construction management:
 Management contract:
 Design and build:

Admeasurements contract:
 This are mainly used for conducting a civil engineering projects.
 Actual quantities are identified and rates are applied
accordingly based on the need of the project.

Advantages
The major advantages are that it manages the quality
of the project effectively. Offers better reliability and
ensures better control over the systems requirements.

Disadvantages
The disadvantages includes it becomes difficult to
manage the time and that impacts the overall
performance of the construction.

Construction management:
 This procurement route includes conducting the work
by selecting different number of trade contractors that
will help in construction. The trade contractors are
mainly contracted with clients but are managed by a
construction manager.

Advantages
 The advantages that are offered with the use of
construction management are that it offers a better
way of building the projects, mainly in large scales.
This also offers an improved way of increasing the
reliability and creativity throughout the development
project. The strategy also ensures better
communication among the stakeholders that will help
in managing the team for developing the project.

Disadvantages
 While constructing a project the main
issues that are faced with using construction
procurement route is that due to open end
nature of the method it becomes difficult to
manage the task. In addition to this it also
leads to unnecessary exposes that has the
potentials of risking the budget of the
project.

management contract method
Management contract method
 Management contract includes appointing proper workers for
the purpose of managing the contract. This tends to act like
traditional contract and works accordingly. The management
contractor is responsible for managing all the activities taking
place within the project and the worker tends to perform based
on the fixed price provided to them by the project manager.

Advantages
 The major advantages that are offered with
management contract are that it helps in saving the
time and resources that are used for the purpose of
developing the project. This also helps in distributing
the responsibility in a better way is that it can provide
better resource management towards the human.

Disadvantages
 There are several disadvantages that come along with
the implementation of management contract method.
It becomes difficult to manage the operational control
as it impacts the management for company and
functioning gets impacted.