Government building and construction projects are regularly being confronted with project delay and budget overrun. The consequences of these problems will ultimately have to be borne by taxpayers. Unexpected events, occurring in the course of the construction process, are an important underlying cause of such problems. Contracts are used as a means to prevent and control these problems and their consequences. Practice shows, however, that present contracts do not always provide sufficient answers. Contracts may even cause parties to be unwilling to co-operate in dealing with the said problems as a result of which the relationship between the parties becomes adverse, leading to a cycle of conflicts. A further cause of this may be found in the way in which contracts are being concluded. The purpose of this project is to find out how the prevention and control of problems and their consequences, occurring in the realization of complex government building and construction projects, can be improved by adapting both the process of conclusion as well as the content of contracts.
| Researchers: | Prof. dr. C.E.C. Jansen; Dr. Y.P. Kamminga; A.T.M. van den Borne; A.M. Kapteijn |
| Topic: | Contracting with the government |
| Approach: | General legal concepts and specific legal rules |
Results
• C.E.C. Jansen, ‘Beperking van aansprakelijkheid in de UAV-GC 2005: tijd voor een herziening?’, Tijdschrift voor Bouwrecht 2016/50, p. 334-345.
• C.E.C. Jansen & J.G.J. Janssen, ‘Marktconsultatie voorafgaande aan een aanbestedingsprocedure: pas toe of leg uit’, in: M.A.B. Chao-Duivis, J.M. Hebly en & E.J. Blom (Eds.), Van het gebaande pad. Opstellen aangeboden aan mr. A.G.J. van Wassenaer, Den Haag 2016: Instituut voor Bouwrecht, p. 239-251.
• Y.P. Kamminga, ‘Rethinking contract design: why incorporating non-legal drivers of contractual behavior in contracts may lead to better results in complex defense systems procurement’, Journal of Public Procurement, 2015 (15 (2)), 208.
• C.E.C. Jansen, Coherentie en integratie van juridisch-administratieve voorwaarden in de bouw. Jaarrede uitgesproken op 11 december 2014 tijdens de jaarvergadering van de Vereniging voor Bouwrecht, Tijdschrift voor Bouwrecht 2015/38, p. 206-213.
• Y.P. Kamminga en H. Dohmen, ‘Waarom betere contracten tot betere projecten leiden in de ICT’, Tijdschrift Conflicthantering 2014, p. 23-27.
• A.T.M. van den Borne, annotatie bij Hof Amsterdam 10 september 2013, ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2013:2858, Jurisprudentie Aanbestedingsrecht 2013/200.
