THESIS ABSTRACT

Abstract

Construction projects play a pivotal role in the development of a country's infrastructure and economic growth. Thus, every construction project is unique in their own field. The timely completion of any construction projects with proper management helps to economic growth of country. The objective of the research is to reflect the existing issues in Urban Road Construction Projects with comparing projects documents and its actual practices in Lalitpur Metropolitan city, to study the factors affecting and to find out solution to overcome the issues in contract management practices in urban road projects in Lalitpur Metropolitan City. The checklists were prepared and data regarding the contract management were obtained from the project stakeholders (Public entity, Client, and Consultant) involved in the urban road construction projects. A structured questionnaire was prepared, and distributed to 74 respondents that comprises of public entity related to this projects, consultants, and contractors at their own place. All responses were obtained, which is 100% of the total respondents. The data were collected through questionnaire survey and analyzed using RII, SPSS, MS Excel, and presented using the graph, table, and pie charts. From the research, it has been found that there is still challenges in contract management practice adopted in urban road construction projects of Lalitpur Metropolitan city. Existing issues in contract administration between contract documents and actual practices (referred and review of official documents as if projects progress reports, consultant’s letter and minutes of meeting etc.) are not matching. Furthermore, different contract GCC clause 15.1- Key Personnel and Equipment, Clause 24.1- Arrangement of OSH Gears and Labor Camp, Clause 26.1- Provide Site Clearance before Contract mobilization by Client ,Clause 34.3- Execution of Construction works to meet milestones, Clause 35.1-Completion of Project with Planned Scheduled etc. are not complying with contract document. It is found that, the factors affecting in Contract Management Practice are political pressure (Local), force majeure (COVID-19), lack of cooperation with stakeholders and line agencies, lack of proper communication, monitoring, timely meetings, and slow decisions vii making. Similarly, it is also found that lack of qualifications, knowledge, skills, and experience of the contract management team. The effective solution to overcome the existing issues in contract management, suggestions have been recommended as LMC must selected the sites having properly installed different utilities and further services must not be installed during construction period. Local representative / political interference at construction site must be managed by LMC office on time. Proper monitoring, efficient decision making mechanism among the project team, regular progress meeting among the public entity, consultant and contractor are required to improve the contract management process of projects. Furthermore, LMC must give the clear site before execution of any project and must require regular co-ordination between different stakeholders/line agencies. Contractor shall not replace their key personnel during the construction period, also, use “issues log,” and maintain safety environment at site for effective managements of projects.

Keywords

Contract management, existing issues, Factor affecting effective contract management, probable solution, questionnaires, Relative Important index (RII), stakeholders, line agencies and public entity.