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Contract Conditions & Risk Allocation Selector

Match the standard-form contract for this jurisdiction, then map how it allocates delay, defects, variation, price-escalation, and payment-security risk.

1 Import Upstream Context

Paste in Tool 1's Agency & Project Profile, Tool 2's Pre-Tender Scope & Parameter Set, and/or Tool 3's Technical Standards & Specification Map below and click Parse, or enter the fields manually if you don't have them to hand.

2 Quick Match — Standard-Form Contract & Payment Security

Pick a jurisdiction to see every contract-form tier CDD's research has found for it. A jurisdiction is rarely one form — pick the tier that actually matches this project's value band yourself; the tool won't guess between a major-works, minor-works, or NEC form for you. Payment Security / Project Bank Account data for the jurisdiction is shown automatically below, where researched.

3 Risk Clause Category Scan

Mark which risk categories are actually relevant to this project. Nothing is pre-selected — a category left unchecked is treated as out of scope, not overlooked.

Notice periods, time-bar strictness, qualifying causes of delay, critical-path linkage requirements
Delay-cost basis (extra costs vs delay damages), daily LD rate, lane-rental / lane-occupancy provisions
Defects liability period length, retention/security mechanism, rectification process on default
Valuation method (Schedule of Rates vs Daywork vs hybrid), dispute-resolution pathway for disagreements
Which party bears the risk of physical conditions differing from what was disclosed
Rise-and-fall index or formula; traffic management, environmental/heritage, and social-procurement overlays
PBA/PTA/RTA applicability threshold, subcontractor auto-inclusion threshold, opt-in mechanism, excluded contract types

4 Known Positions Entry

For each category marked relevant in Step 3, enter any specific clause numbers, rates, or thresholds already known or already set by the agency's RFT. Leave blank if unknown — it will be flagged, not guessed. Where CDD's dataset already has verified or partially-verified clause detail for the selected tier or jurisdiction, the matching field below is pre-filled automatically — it will never overwrite something you've already typed. Categories left unchecked in Step 3 are shown here for reference but aren't required.

1. Extension of Time & Delay Provisions

2. Delay Costs & Liquidated Damages

3. Defects Liability & Security

4. Variations & Scope-Change Valuation

5. Latent Conditions & Geotechnical Risk

6. Price Escalation & Road-Specific Special Conditions

7. Payment Security & Project Bank Accounts

5 Copy Prompt → External AI → Paste Back

For categories where the specific position isn't already known, generate a research prompt covering only the categories marked relevant in Step 3, run it through Gemini, and paste the result back in.

6 Contract Conditions & Risk Allocation Profile

Assembles everything above into the profile Tool 5 (Document Assembly Engine) reads from, and Tool 6's compliance gate checks against. Unresolved fields are flagged, never guessed.

Fill in the sections above, then click “Build Output.”