Equitable
Client/Architect
Agreements Policy

What Governments need to do

Governments need to become exemplar clients and work with architects to ensure negotiations on projects lead to fair, equitable, insurable agreements.

This will require Government to reduce its reliance on external advice which does not seem to understand the realities of a professional consultant's business and to:

  • use the Institute's standard form agreement, or
  • use a bespoke agreement which takes into account the "Guiding Principles"

The Institute also calls on Government to engage with the Institute and other professional consultant representative bodies, to develop together, standard forms of consultant contracts tailored to the needs of Government projects.