What is the Role of a Contract Administrator?
Jul 20/22
by Jason Peter Brown
On LinkedIn, if you search “Contract Administrator” jobs—there are lots of opportunities in various types of construction including residential, commercial and industrial—in both the private and public sector.
On LinkedIn, if you search “Contract Administrator” jobs—there are lots of opportunities in various types of construction including residential, commercial and industrial—in both the private and public sector.
What exactly, is the role of a Contract Administrator?
In AEC, there are tremendous pressures to improve productivity, performance, and responsiveness. There’s also pressure to constantly meet new reporting requirements, and provide supporting documentation on demand. This pressure comes from all sides: the client, the contractor, consultants—even legal counsel and local authorities. A lot of time is spent scrambling to provide answers.
Positioning appropriate software is critical to success, just like WHERE you place a building, on the site. Statslog’s FIVE software is positioned to align with your role as the Design Professional.
Your role is as a neutral party, by definition. To have a software aligned differently would, by its position, favour one or another of the parties. It is critical to independently control your own data. Collaborative software, inviting input and sharing from other disciplines, introduce their bias and perspective, contaminating the role of the design professional, as observer and authority.
FIVE is best implemented WHEN the project is to be tendered. Your forms and reports can be vetted, for this specific project. Project Budget and Permit and Tender sets, can be preloaded.
FIVE is specifically aligned with the role of the design professional, in a construction agreement, as the ADMINISTRATOR, not as a CONSTRUCTION MANAGER.
FIVE makes it easy to distribute everything the contract documents require and helps you ensure all parties, do likewise.
You’ve probably found that there isn’t much more performance, productivity, or efficiency to be squeezed out of general purpose office software. If you want to improve your contract admin, you must adopt something that has been designed from the start—for construction contract administration. At Statslog, we believe the best way to improve your contract admin is through the use of purpose-built CCA software.
You may not choose our software…though we hope you will!
Jason Peter Brown joined Statslog in 1998 as Lead Software Developer, with a goal to make the best CCA solution possible, through development, training and technical support.