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Covid-19 Impact on contracts and disputes Survey - 27 July 2020

As part of the Construction Leadership Council’s Industry Recovery Roadmap Phase 1: Reset target of minimising disruption, the CLC Disputes & Collaboration workstream have published guidance and templates (7th May and 14th July respectively) in order to support industry to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on project delivery and business resilience.

However, to set the direction of future work in this area, the CLC Disputes & Collaboration Workstream have compiled a short survey to ascertain the nature and extent of the challenges industry is currently facing*. Please help us help you, by taking the time to fill in this short set of questions about the commercial challenges you are or will be facing. 

*These questions have also been included as part of a wider Constructionline COVID-19 impact survey, but the CLC Disputes & Collaboration workstream would like to gain the widest perspective possible to inform their work moving forward.
1.Have you received any support from Buyers to mitigate the risk posed by the COVID-19 pandemic?
2.If yes: Please advise the support you have received from your Buyers to help you organisation manage the risk posted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
3.Have any contracts to which you are a party been impacted by COVID-19?
4.What percentage of your contracts by volume have been impacted by COVID-19?
5.What percentage of your contracts by value have been impacted by COVID-19?
6.Are you aware of the guidance on contractual best practice issued by the Government and Construction Leadership Council (7 May and 14 July)?
7.Have any contracts to which you are a party been amended as a result of the guidance, to take account of the impact of COVID-19?
In relation to contracts impacted by COVID-19, on what percentage of contracts have you reached agreement with clients or firms in the supply chain for dealing with the following:
8.Delay due to COVID-19?
9.Relief from liability for delay due to COVID-19?
10.Additional costs incurred due to COVD-19?
11.What percentage of your turnover does unresolved COVID-19 related contractual issues represent?
12.Which areas of your contract do the unresolved issues relate to?
13.What percentage of your contracts will need to be resolved by a formal process?
14.Which of the following have you used or will you use to resolve contractual issues arising from COVID-19
15.Do you obtain bonds from the surety market for your contracts?
16.Please select which bonds you obtain
17.Do you use a broker to access the surety market?
18.Have you experienced any impacts on existing bond facilities or the ability to access new bonds?
19.What impacts have you experienced?
20.Are you aware of the guidance on obtaining surety issued by the Government and the Construction Leadership Council (published on 2 July 2020)
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