NEC Professional Services Short Contract (PSSC) webinar

The Professional Services Short Contract is intentionally simpler than its big brother, the Professional Services Contract (PSC). It can be used for any professional service and has a range of payment options. This webinar was held on 20 July 2022.

The session will look at the basics of;

• putting together the contract and
• contract management

Richard Patterson, NEC4 drafter and Procurement & NEC Specialist at Mott MacDonald

Richard is a chartered civil engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) and procurement and NEC specialist with global development, engineering and management consultant, Mott MacDonald.

Richard was part of the drafting team for NEC4, has been part of the ICE’s working group on procurement, contracts and carbon/net zero and contributed to NEC’s soon to be released secondary option relating to ‘net zero’.

Richard leads on NEC for Mott MacDonald and delivers in-house and client training and training for NEC Training, including their 4 day ECC Project Manager accreditation course.

Richard is very keen on getting NEC used more widely and has given NEC training in Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Ethiopia, France. Germany, Hong Kong. Ireland, New Zealand, Qatar, Peru, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka and the USA. He has contributed to two NEC books, had 7 NEC papers published in ICE’s Proceedings and sat on the Editorial Advisory Panel of the ICE’s journal, Management, Procurement and Law. He is also a frequent contributor to the NEC website and newsletter and most of his articles are linked from his Linked-in page.  

Richard has very kindly allowed his presented material to be made available for viewing. The slides on Slideshare and the webinar recording on YouTube are now available in our APM resources area and also embedded below for reference.

Questions raised during the recording will be reviewed and published with the speaker responses shortly.

Further useful information that Richard would like to share with you: Price lists in NEC short contracts: how clients can simplify the process

To watch an introduction to NEC contracts, please find our last series of NEC webinars on our YouTube channel. Mott MacDonald's 'Little Book' of NEC is also available to view here. 

Future NEC webinars:

14/09 - NEC Framework Contract 
18/10 - NEC Term Services Contract 

Previous presentations and webinars can be viewed on the APM Slideshare and YouTube channels.

This event is suitable for professionals with any level of experience.

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APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition reference
Section	Description
3.3.6	Continuing professional development (CPD)