Specialist contract administration · South Africa
We run the contract
the way the contract
says it should be run.
Setout sits on the employer's side of the table. Compensation events assessed against Clause 60.1. Programmes accepted or rejected against Clause 31. Certificates issued in time. Defects logged. Claims answered.
Three things we do
Services
Live contract administration
We act as the employer's contract administrator on retainer. Compensation events assessed against Clause 60.1. Programmes accepted or rejected against Clause 31. Certificates issued in time. Defects logged. Claims answered.
Discuss a live project →Editable contract templates
For in-house teams who run their own contracts but want a starting point that doesn't require six weeks of clean-up. Worked examples included. NEC3, JBCC, GCC and FIDIC.
See the templates pack →Project-specific adaptation
Take a standard form and hand back a signature-ready contract for the specific project. Contract Data, Z-clauses, Activity Schedules, Works Information — drafted, cross-checked, and packaged.
Brief us on a contract →Why Setout
Most contracts aren't lost on merits. They're lost on procedure.
We are not a law firm, not a project management consultancy, not a quantity surveyor. We do one thing: administer the construction contract.
Our notices reference the clause. Our quotations show effect on the Prices, the Completion Date, and the Key Dates separately. Our programmes show float, time risk allowances, access dates and information dates. The way the contract says.
Based in the Free State. Working across South Africa.
Practitioner notes
Writing
Why most NEC3 compensation events get rejected
Three patterns we see on every NEC3 project: notifications without an event in 60.1, notifications outside the eight-week window, and quotations that don't separate Prices, Completion Date and Key Dates.
The JBCC final account mistake costing contractors R2M+
Final accounts go wrong long before the final account. Two failure modes — undocumented verbal variations and missed submission deadlines — and how to run JBCC contracts as instruments from day one.
What B2–B5 contractors get wrong about NEC3 programmes
The Accepted Programme isn't a Gantt chart you submit once. Submitted properly under Clause 31, it protects time and cost. Submitted as a bar chart, it does neither.
A worked NEC3 compensation event.
From notification to assessment.
The full document — clauses cited, quotations cross-checked, Project Manager's assessment shown next to the contractor's. The way we run it on retainer.