Contract Administration and Change Issues

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Contract Administration and Change Issues

Importance of Roles and Responsibilities of Contracting Officers and Administrator

Contracting officers and administrators are responsible for providing administrative services, it includes, estimation of project, purchasing, contract administration and procurement, it also includes administrative, facilities, safety, property and space management services. Administrator or contracting officer also plays a role of human resource services, such as controlling workers. Administrator role is to provide advisory services, and participate in implementing and developing administrative policies; moreover, administrator is responsible planning organizational need and developing plans, objectives, goals, or criteria for managing processes. Contracting officers and administrator position needs wider range of knowledge of both quantitative and qualitative methods for the management and development related to administrative programs. Administrator and contracting role is to demonstrate strong communication skills, and demonstrate analytical ability (Department of Energy 2007).

Contract administrator involves the activities performed by officials of government; these activities are performed once contract has been awarded to administrator for determining that how well contractor are performing for meeting the requirements of contract. Contract includes the dealings between contractor and government from the time contract is awarded, these dealings are assessed until the work is accepted completed or contract is void, moreover contract also involves the procurement process of primary part that make sure the government in order to get payment. Contractor or administrator role is very important in any project they play an essential role, good administrator or contractor make sure that end user is satisfied with the services or product, which have been obtained under the contract. Administrator can utilize several ways for accomplishing satisfaction to obtain direct input from the project manager, with the help of surveys. These surveys can help contractor to identify the problem are and improve performance of contractor, because feedback from survey can be utilized to notify contractor about the particular aspects of contract, which are not met, moreover program and contracting officials can be utilized as a information, which can help in identifying the past performance information on contract awards (Hovi, V 1960).

Importance of Improving Methods of Creating Contract Schedules

It is very important to improve the methods, which may help in developing contract schedules, as schedules are very important, because it defines the flow of project development, and result in efficient work. Generally, contract administration focuses on services and supplies, of requisite quality, vary with respect to budget and time. Whereas legal requirements of contract schedule is concerned these are determinative, followed with the proper course of action under the supervision from the officials of government, these officials are responsible for administering contract, and exercises their judgment and skill, which is often require while creating contract schedule.

Improvement in methods for developing contract schedules can be done with the particular extent and nature of administration of contract ranges from different contract. On the other hand, contract acceptance should be made on the payment and delivery of schedules to the contractor; schedule must provide the understanding about the extensive involvement of ...