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Please note: this contract is no longer compliant with current legislation following the implementation of Part 8 of the Construction Act on 1 October 2011 and will be withdrawn from sale in June 2012. Please use the equivalent JCT 2011 contract.

The range of JCT '05 contracts will be withdrawn from sale in June 2012.

Intermediate Building Contract IC Revision 2 2009

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 a specification, work schedules or bills of quantities to define adequately the quantity and quality of the work

- Where a Contract Administrator and Quantity Surveyor are to administer the conditions.

This contract provides more detailed provisions and more extensive control procedures than the Minor Works Building Contract (MW) but 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 Intermediate Building Contract with contractor's design (ICD).

Replaces: Intermediate Form of Building Contract (IFC 98).

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