Law/531 Contract Development

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Development of a Contract Benjamin DeBenedetto, Jami Shapiro, Lainie Goodell, Lashanda Mister, Othello Henderson III, and Shawnya Toole LAW/531 Ayodeji Badaki A contract administration plan helps a business manage its contracts successfully and provides a tool for monitoring its performance and adherence to the terms of the contract (Smallbusiness, 2012). There are five areas of the plan that need to be addressed. The plan should define the deliverables; schedule for start up, deadlines for deliverables and closing dates; set a budget for expenses and receivables; assign responsibilities; and risk management should be assessed (Smallbusiness, 2012). The implementation of a contract administration plan can act as a guideline for the…show more content…
Typically with large companies, a contract administration can be used to "put procedures in place to properly keep track of the myriad of documents, drawings, and cost and schedule control information that is generated during construction" (Harmon & Stephan, 2001). More importantly, a "proper contract administrator can manage these efforts and ensure that procedures are followed" (Harmon & Stephan, 2001).The benefit to this is that a company "saves time and money " when proper contract management is used and contract administrators are used to perform these jobs. The development of a contract plan along with using contract administrators can also affect any legalities associated with it. Ensuring that the correct people are in place who have the ability of full understanding of the contract and all of the legalities that go with it will help to protect the company. Developing a professional contract administration plan leaves no responsibilities to question. One of the biggest issues in every corporate setting is most employees want to delegate their responsibilities to others who work alongside them. A carefully thought out plan eliminates any room for…show more content…
The company works with different venues each week to produce their three touring shows. Each venue has a different contract with the company, however all the contracts say very similar things. This means that new contracts do not need to be completely written up every week. Also, all of the company’s employees are contracted, but those also stay the same for the most part. In relation to other companies, her company is a small one and therefore does not have specific contract administrators. The people in the company’s ‘home office’ all do multiple jobs and hold multiple job responsibilities and their primary focus is not the contracts that are basically kept similar for everything. In the case of Othello’s company developing a contract administration plan has taken his company to the next level. The last course he took was human capital management and ironically this was the major issue his company was dealing with. Many of the employees at the company are independent contractors who have their own companies. The company wants to protect themselves against any and all negative press. Based on the way they conduct business there is no true way to regulate what they do so the company asserts roadblocks wherever possible to eliminate any possibility of a backlash that would affect the

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