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Published on: 30 April 2015

My client wants to use the GC Works contract as they are familiar with it—is this form still used?

The GC Works contract (the Government General Conditions of Contract for Building and Engineering Work) used to be the standard form that was used for public Sector construction contracts. It could also be used for works in the private sector. Like other suites of construction contract, the GC Works suite included versions with and without quantities, as well as design

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What does GC Works mean?

A family of construction contracts issued by the government (by what was then the Department of the environment, Transport and the Regions) for public sector building and engineering works. They are no longer updated.

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