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Contract Change Management

Once a contract has been approved, its details (e.g. amount or completion date) cannot be edited directly. When it’s necessary to make such changes to account for unforeseen situation in the progress of execution, a contract change process should be adopted. Three major steps in contract change process are listed as follows:

Request for Proposal (RFP): A RFP is issued by the contract owner to proactively make certain changes, additions and deletions to the work to be performed under the subject contract. The Contractor is then required to submit a proposal and a detailed breakdown for this change within specific calendar days from the issue date of the RFP.

Change Order Request (COR): A request by the contractor for implementing a change in the work that may change the contract sum, the contract period of performance, or both. It is usually proposed based on a RFP.

Change Order (CO): In project management, a change order is a component of the change management process whereby changes in the Scope of Work agreed to by the owner, contractor and architect are implemented. It is usually submitted according to the corresponding COR.

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