Our Mission

JCT’s ‘Memorandum of Association’ states that the Company’s mission is:

“To develop, publish, procure the publication, revise and disseminate in both paper and electronic form suites of standard forms of contract and tender documentation and practice notes.....”

"suite of standard forms" means a group of all the mutually consistent documents necessary to operate a particular method of procurement, produced to enable them to be used together. Where applicable, this includes the following:

• consultant agreements
• main contracts between the employer and the main contractor
• sub-contracts between the main contractor and its sub-contractors (both for sub-contractors selected by the employer and for other sub-contractors)
• standard forms of sub-sub-contract between a sub-contractor and such sub-contractor's sub-sub-contractors
• design agreements between an employer and a specialist designer
• forms of tender for issue by an employer to prospective main contractors and for issue by a main contractor to prospective sub-contractors and for issue by a sub-contractor to prospective sub-sub-contractors
• forms of contract for the supply of goods
• forms of bond (including performance bonds) and collateral warranties.

JCT's ongoing work is to produce these suites of standard forms for the various methods of procurement used for obtaining building work.