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Comprehensive change management functionality
assures that changes are resolved, payments
made and claims are avoided. Instantly reflect
the cost or schedule impact of any change
on your project, identify which contractors
are affected and whether new equipment or
materials are needed. Automatically collect
the approved commitments to submit a budgeted
change request. |
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Organize subcontractor, vendor, supplier
and client contract and purchase orders. Examine
budget, cost commitments and variances with
a comprehensive Cost Worksheet. Track budgets,
review commitment documents and record requisitions
and invoices as they are received. The Cost
Worksheet automatically collects all related
cost information from contracts, requisitions,
changes and purchase orders and dynamically
displays this in one-easy-to-read form giving
you the power to understand where costs are
today, and more importantly, where costs are
going tomorrow. |
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Create, manage and understand the status
of a contract in one simple screen. No longer
page from one spreadsheet to the next to understand
how the contractor is performing. Right at
your fingertips, verify contractor’s
insurance is current, submittals were delivered
as contracted, payments requisition have been
submitted and reflect the cost or schedule
impact of any change. |
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Facilitate the preparation and negotiation
of monthly payment requisitions. Streamline
the process by consolidating contractor requisitions
into your monthly requisition, dramatically
improving the time required to prepare and
submit the requisition for payment. Even allow
for subcontractors to issue pay requests with
secure, role and vendor based access. Easily
integrate with your accounting system for
a truly streamlined payment process. |
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A comprehensive change summary view helps
you quickly analyze the financial and schedule
impact a change may have at any stage in the
negotiation process. |
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With Contract Manager you will have an easy
way to log, broadcast request for quotes,
notices and design changes for rapid response.
You can even combine multiple changes into
a single change document for submission and
approval. |
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Eliminate surprises - an alerts tool allows
managers to be alerted when change requests
or budget adjustments exceed a set monetary
threshold. |
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With Contract Manager you’ll know
instantly where documents are in the approval
process. Track when drawings were submitted
and to whom. Take advantage of flexible workflow
options for creating, sharing and reviewing
submittals in real time. Contract Manager
helps accelerate design reviews and approvals
while increasing accountability among project
participants. |
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Keeping your project moving is what it's
all about. From the Control Center, view the
status of all RFIs as well as the average
response time from each team member. Automatic
email notification to the responsible team
member combined with role based action items,
ensure exchange of documents are expedited
and turnaround times are reduced. Contract
Manager will keep documents moving and everyone
alerted to their required actions. |
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Reporting event on the job site is critical
in maintaining an accurate record of daily
occurrences. Using Daily Reports, contractors
can easily record weather conditions, work
completed, field force and visitors, and record
materials delivered on site. Users can even
record progress on construction schedule activities
in Primavera 5.0. |
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Manage issues effectively. With Contract
Managers Issues tracking, no issue goes unresolved
or unrecorded. Contract Manager ties documents
together to create an electronic issue file.
Over time, Contract Manager builds your issue,
enabling you to maintain an accurate history
of events, compiling what happened, when it
happened and who is accountable. |
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Contract Manager helps you to quickly catch
resolve issues and resolve potential problems.
Every daily report, submittal, proposal, contract
drawing and RFI can be searched using keywords,
names, dates or phrases. You can even search
attached documents. |
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Facilitate team interaction. Role-based
views display the information that is relevant
to each project participant. Every project
team member will have the information they
need to keep the project going. Action list,
alerts, and turnaround graphs help Project
Managers immediately identify who is holding
up the process, when it was required and if
it will impact the budget or schedule. |
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Powerful reports provide project managers
with the visibility you need to control all
of your projects. Track budgets, cost variances
and project changes from multiple projects
to analyze comparative trends and cause/effect
among projects enabling your to maximize efficiency
while minimizing project costs, risks and
safety issues. |
Contract Manager/Expedition