Primavera® Contract Manager

On-Schedule, On-Budget Completion Demands Complete Project ControlConstruction project management involves groups of people representing different disciplines — everyone from project managers,contract managers, and division managers to subcontractors, architects, suppliers, and clients — all trying to collaborate on amultitude of issues and changes while juggling multiple documents and contracts.

Controlling your construction project’s schedule, budget, commitments, and deliverable is vital in assuring the success of yourprojects and the future of your business. But this can be challenging with slow responses, missed deadlines, and late deliveries.Every unbudgeted change or delay in schedule can result in increased costs, risk, and claim exposure.What users need is apowerful tool to integrate these processes, bringing together the entire project team, and giving users confidence throughout the project lifecycle.

Project control has never been easierPrimavera Systems, the leader in project management solutions for over 20 years, delivers an easy-to-use, browser-based solutionspecifically developed to increase construction project management efficiency and speed, while reducing schedule delays and risk.Industry-standard databases with varying configurations supporting small to enterprise deployment, including MS SQL Express,Oracle, and Sybase.

Primavera Contract Manager provides immediate access to the latest project details. Rather than waiting for a fax, telephone call,or shipment, everyone — from the home office, field offices, and even third-party team members — is equipped with theinformation they need to keep the project moving forward.

Amazing power and unrivaled easeDo you want to take on more projects without compromisingprogress or quality? You can with Primavera Contract Manageras it offers a clear understanding of who is accountable forwhat. You will be confident in your ability to respond rapidlywhile providing an accurate history of events with the followingcontrols:

• Superior job cost management• Comprehensive change management• Powerful reporting tool• Subcontractor accountability management

With Contract Manager’s collaborative platform, users canimmediately respond to questions, issues, changes, and dailyevents. Turnaround graphs help project managers immediatelyidentify who is holding up the process, when it was required,and if it will impact the budget or schedule.

Subcontract ManagementManage contractsPrimavera Contract Manager offers an unparalleled contracts module to improve contractor, vendor, and supplier management. This tool enables contract managers to create, manage, andunderstand the status of a contract in one simple screen. Nolonger page from one spreadsheet to the next to understand how the contractor is performing. Right at your fingertips, verifythat a contractor’s insurance is current, submittals were delivered as contracted, and that payment requisitions have been submitted, which reflect the cost or schedule impact of any change.

Expedite paymentsFacilitate the preparation and negotiation of monthly paymentrequisitions. Streamline the process by consolidating contractorrequisitions into a monthly requisition, dramatically improving the time required to prepare and submit the requisition forpayment. Even allow for subcontractors to issue pay requests with secure, role- and vendor-based access. Easily integrate with the accounting system for a truly streamlined payment process.

Take Control of Your Construction Processes with Primavera Contract Manager

Accountability ManagementPrimavera Contract Manager facilitates teaminteraction. Role-based views display theinformation that is relevant to each projectteam member in order to keep theproject going. Action lists, alerts, andturnaround graphs help projectmanagers immediately identify whois holding up the process, when itis required, and if it will impact thebudget or schedule.

Change ManagementWith Primavera Contract Manager, you

will have an easy way to log, broadcastrequest for quotes and notices, and

design changes for rapid response. Even combine multiple changes

into a single change document for submission and approval.

ReportingPrimavera Contract Manager comes complete with powerfulpush-button supporting PDF output. Managers can trackbudgets, cost variances, and project changes from multipleprojects. Analyze comparative trends and cause/effect amongprojects enabling maximum efficiency while minimizing projectcosts, risks, and safety issues.

Job CostManagement

Primavera Contract Manager helps organize subcontractor,vendor, supplier, and client contract and purchase orders.Examine budget, cost commitments, and variances with acomprehensive Cost Worksheet. Track budgets, reviewcommitment documents, and record requisitions and invoices as they are received. The Cost Worksheet automatically collects all related cost information from contracts, requisitions, changes, and purchase orders. It dynamically displays this in one easy-to-read form giving users the power to understand where costs are today, and more importantly, where costs are going tomorrow.

Personalized Action ListWith a personalized Action List, documents waiting for attention won’t slip through the cracks. This cross-project, interactive to-do listenables users to quickly drill down to the most critical documentsneeding attention.

Expedite reviews and approvalsWith Primavera Contract Manager, know instantly where documentsare in the approval process. Track when drawings were submitted and to whom. Full integration with the Brava!® drawing viewer providesusers with a universal interface to view and edit documents. Takeadvantage of flexible workflow options for creating, sharing, andreviewing submittals in real time. Contract Manager helps acceleratedesign reviews and approvals while increasing accountability amongproject participants.

Cost ControlPrimavera Contract Manager’s Cost Worksheet providesreal-time status of project costs. As subcontracts are awarded,purchase orders issued, requisitions paid, and changes arerequested, the cost worksheet is instantly updated. Trackbudgets, review commitments, record actuals, and analyzecost variances for a complete financial picture. Capturepending costs to understand where costs are today, but more importantly where costs are going tomorrow.

Get automatic alerts Primavera Contract Manager provides everything necessary tomanage job costs and eliminate surprises. An alerts tool allowsmanagers to be alerted when change requests or budgetadjustments exceed a set monetary threshold.

Comprehensive Change ManagementPrimavera Contract Manager provides change management power toassure changes are resolved, payment is made, and claims are avoided.Instantly reflect the cost or schedule impact of any change on a project,identify which contractors are affected, and whether new equipment ormaterials are needed. Automatically collect the approved commitmentsto submit a budgeted change request. With Primavera ContractManager, be prepared for the unexpected and have the power tonegotiate cost and schedule details to final resolution.

Track changes as they happenChanges are an expected part of every construction project. Tracking,documenting, and negotiating change is also part of the job. PrimaveraContract Manager gives a better way to track the change process – and make sure that nothing is overlooked. A comprehensive changesummary view helps quickly analyze the financial and schedule impact a change may have at any stage in the negotiation process.

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Accelerated Response to Reduce Turnaround TimesKeeping your project moving is what it’s all about. From the Control Center, view the status of all RFIs as well as the average response time from each team member. Automatic emailnotification to the responsible team member, combined with role-based action items, ensureexchange of documents are expedited and turnaround times are reduced. Primavera ContractManager will keep documents moving and alert everyone to their required actions.

Prepare daily reportsReporting events on the job site is critical in maintaining an accuraterecord of daily occurrences. Using Daily Reports, contractors can easilyrecord weather conditions, work completed, field force and visitors, andrecord materials delivered on site. Users can even record progress onconstruction schedule activities.

Proactively manage safety incidentsProviding a safe working environment is top priority. From recording all safety incidents to proactively preventing incidents from occurring.View and record important safety violations or injuries, as well as nearmisses, that occur on the jobsite. No need to manually transfer thisinformation to a safety compliant form, Primavera Contract Managercomes complete with OSHA compliant forms.

Issues ManagementIt happens in every job. A problem, a misunderstanding, a difference of opinionthat gets discussed, reviewed, and debated and eventually spans an incrediblenumber of people, documents, and weeks of involvement. With PrimaveraContract Manager’s Issues Management tracking, no issue goes unresolved orunrecorded, and documents are tied together to create an electronic issue file.Over time, Contract Manager builds issue to maintain an accurate history ofevents, compile what happened, when it happened, and who is accountable.

Build issues on the flyPrimavera Contract Manager helps to quickly identify issues and resolve potentialproblems. Every daily report, submittal, proposal, contract drawing, and RFI canbe searched using keywords, names, dates, or phrases...you can even searchattached documents.

Primavera’s Construction Management Solution In today’s market, contractors, contract managers, engineering procurementconstruction firms, and owners need to be more responsive due to more dynamicproject delivery methods and stringent market conditions, resulting in increasedresponsiveness to your clients needs. In turn, you need improved collaborationwithin technology and solutions, which helps standardize best practices to provideefficiency. Primavera’s Integrated Construction Management solution providessuperior scheduling, contract control, cost and resource management, and changemanagement on a collaborative platform to build best practices and project andbusiness processes for your projects and programs. Primavera Contract Managerintegrates seamlessly with Primavera 5.0 for complete control.