Intermediate Building Contract (IC)

Appropriate:

where the proposed building works are of simple content involving the normal, recognised basic trades and skills of the industry, without building service installations of a complex nature or other complex specialist work; 
where the works are designed by or on behalf of the Employer, where fairly detailed contract provisions are necessary and the Employer is to provide the Contractor with drawings and bills of quantities, a specification or work schedules to define adequately the quantity and quality of the work; and
where an Architect/Contract Administrator and Quantity Surveyor are to administer the conditions.

This contract is more detailed and contains more extensive control procedures than the Minor Works Building Contract (MW) but is less detailed than the Standard Building Contract (SBC).

Can be used:

where the works are to be carried out in sections; 
by both private and local authority employers;
where provisions are required to cover named specialists.

Not suitable:

where  the Contractor is to design discrete part(s) of the works, even though all the other criteria are met - consider using the Intermediate Building Contract with contractor's design (ICD).

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