关键信息
- 日期
- 2027年2月8–12日(5天)
- 地点
- TBD, Manama, Bahrain
- 每位学员费用
- £2,950(英镑)
- 付款
- 通过发票和银行转账付款
- 报名截止
- 2026年12月30日
- 证书
- 结业证书
- 内训选项
- 按您的日期,为您的团队专场举办
培训项目概述
Most of the value in a public contract is won or lost after signature. A well-run tender can still end in late delivery, disputed variations, unpaid claims or a terminated contractor if no one is managing the agreement day to day. Effective Contract Management Training in Manama is a five-day programme for the people who carry that responsibility: contract managers, project engineers, procurement officers and the finance and legal staff who support them.
Research published by World Commerce & Contracting in 2025 estimates that organisations lose close to 9% of contract value each year through weak contract management, with the best performers losing around 3% and the weakest 15% or more. The causes are familiar to any project team: cost overruns, scope disputes, invoicing errors, missed entitlements and contract data scattered across many systems.
Public bodies face the same risks with added accountability. Bahrain’s own experience shows why: the Ministry of Works reported that 42 of 79 road projects delivered between 2015 and 2019 finished behind schedule, citing utility clashes, design changes, scope additions and permit delays. These are contract management issues as much as engineering ones, and they recur in donor-financed projects across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The programme follows the full contract life cycle: planning and risk allocation, contract start-up, performance and payment control, variations and claims, disputes, termination and close-out. It draws on the World Bank’s Contract Management Practice guidance (second edition, 2024), the Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (September 2025 edition), the FIDIC 2017 contracts as reprinted in 2022, and Bahrain’s updated tender law.
Participants work on real contract documents, build a Contract Management Plan with key performance indicators, and practise notices, variation pricing and dispute escalation in structured exercises.
本培训项目可在以下方面加强机构能力
- Contract Management Plans aligned with World Bank 2024 guidance
- Risk identification and allocation before contract signature
- Selecting contract types and payment mechanisms
- Drafting clear scope, deliverables and acceptance criteria
- Contract start-up, mobilisation and kick-off meetings
- Key performance indicators and performance reviews
- Time control, programme updates and delay analysis
- Cost control, interim payments and price adjustment
- Quality assurance, inspection and acceptance
- Change control and variation pricing
- Notices, claims and time bars under FIDIC 2017
- Value engineering proposals
- Supplier relationship management
- Dispute avoidance, adjudication and DAAB procedures
- Mediation, expert determination and arbitration options
- Remedies, liquidated damages and performance security
- Suspension and termination for default
- Contract records, document control and digital tools
- Contract close-out, final accounts and lessons learned
- Fraud and corruption red flags during execution
The result is a team that treats the signed contract as a management tool, not a file in a cabinet, and that can show auditors and financiers a clear record of every decision taken.
The Growing Importance of Effective Contract Management
Contract volumes are rising across the Gulf. Bahrain’s Tender Board reported awards of more than BD2.1 billion in 2024, a 25% increase in value, across 2,032 tenders and auctions, with 86.9% of tenders issued through its e-tendering system. The government’s Strategic Projects Plan, announced in 2021 with more than USD 30 billion of signature projects including a metro network and a new causeway to Saudi Arabia, will add large, multi-year contracts that need disciplined administration.
The legal framework is also moving. Law No. 30 of 2026, issued in June 2026, amended Decree-Law No. 36 of 2002 on government tenders. It raised the value of procedures that entities may run themselves, allowed regulated negotiation with bidders in defined cases, and modernised public auctions, while keeping the oversight role of the Tender Board and the National Audit Office. Financiers have updated their rules too: the World Bank issued the seventh edition of its Procurement Regulations in September 2025.
各机构日益需要具备以下能力的专业人员:
- Preparing a Contract Management Plan at the procurement stage
- Reading and applying FIDIC, World Bank and national contract conditions
- Allocating risk in a way contractors can price
- Setting measurable KPIs and service levels
- Running structured progress and performance meetings
- Checking payment applications against measured work
- Assessing extension of time and cost claims fairly
- Pricing and approving variations within delegated authority
- Issuing and responding to contractual notices on time
- Managing performance securities and retention
- Escalating disputes through the right contractual route
- Keeping records that satisfy auditors and financiers
- Closing contracts and capturing lessons for future tenders
健全的合同管理体系可帮助组织:
- Deliver projects closer to the approved time and budget
- Reduce value lost to overpayment and missed entitlements
- Avoid costly disputes and arbitration
- Protect public funds and pass audit reviews
- Build better relationships with capable suppliers
- Respond quickly to legitimate changes in scope
- Meet financier requirements on fiduciary control
- Improve the quality of future tender documents
- 加强透明度与问责
Bahrain’s parliament, reviewing the National Audit Office’s 2024–2025 findings in March 2026, called for closer checks of actual project spending against approved amounts and criticised delays on some service projects. That emphasis on follow-through after award is exactly where contract managers make the difference.
Source: Bahrain Tender Board 2024 results, reported by News of Bahrain (April 2025)
1. On average, how much contract value do organisations lose each year through weak contract management, according to WorldCC research?
World Commerce & Contracting's 2025 white paper puts average value erosion at almost 9%, from about 3% for the best performers to 15% or more for the weakest.
2. What share of Bahrain Tender Board tenders were issued through e-tendering in 2024?
The Tender Board's 2024 results, reported in April 2025, show 86.9% of tenders issued through the e-tendering system.
3. Which edition of the World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers is the latest?
The World Bank's procurement framework page lists the September 2025 Procurement Regulations as the current edition.
Who Should Attend This Contract Management Training?
本培训项目适合:
- 合同经理与合同管理员
- Procurement and tender committee officers
- Project managers and deputy project managers
- Project engineers and resident engineers
- Quantity surveyors and cost controllers
- Staff of project implementation units (PIUs)
- Finance officers approving contractor payments
- Legal advisers and in-house counsel
- Internal auditors reviewing contracts
- Supervision consultants acting as the Engineer
- Asset and facilities managers with service contracts
- 供应链与物流经理
- Managers in state-owned and private companies with public clients
- Contractor and supplier commercial managers
Mixed teams from the same institution, for example a procurement officer, an engineer and a finance officer, gain the most because they practise the hand-offs that usually fail.
勾选您的团队需要具备的能力。
Contract Management Training Objectives
Upon successful completion of this Contract Management Training, participants will be able to:
- Explain the contract manager’s role across the contract life cycle
- Choose a suitable contract type and payment mechanism
- Identify, assess and allocate contract risks
- 编制包含关键绩效指标的合同管理计划
- Organise contract start-up and mobilisation
- Monitor time, cost and quality against the contract
- Process variations and value engineering proposals
- Evaluate claims and apply notice requirements
- Use remedies, securities and damages correctly
- Select a dispute resolution route and prepare a case
- Apply Bahrain’s tender law and financier rules to contract decisions
- Close out a contract and record lessons learned
Each objective is linked to a template or checklist that participants complete during the week and take back to their organisation.
培训项目内容与结构
- Why value is lost after award: evidence from WorldCC research
- The contract manager’s role, authority and responsibilities
- Bahrain’s Decree-Law No. 36 of 2002 and Law No. 30 of 2026 changes
- The Tender Board, e-tendering and oversight bodies
- World Bank Procurement Regulations, September 2025 edition
- Contract types: lump sum, remeasurement, cost-plus, framework
- Performance-based and output-based contracting
- Contract Management Plan: purpose, timing and contents
- Building a contract risk register
- The risk-sharing continuum and who should carry each risk
- Drafting clear scope, specifications and acceptance criteria
- General and particular conditions: what to check
- Performance security, advance payment and insurance
- Contract start-up: site access, permits and mobilisation
- Progress monitoring and programme updates
- Measuring and certifying work for payment
- Price adjustment and its practical application
- Quality inspection, testing and non-conformance
- Change management procedures and delegated authority
- Valuing variations: rates, prices and fair valuation
- Value engineering proposals and how to assess them
- Notices and time bars in FIDIC 2017 and the 2022 reprint
- Separating claims from Engineer determinations
- Extension of time and delay analysis basics
- Evaluating cost claims and supporting records
- Liquidated damages, set-off and withholding
- Suspension, termination for default and step-in
- Force majeure, limitation and exclusion of liability
- Taking-over, defects notification and final inspection
- Final accounts, retention release and securities
- 承包商绩效评价
- Contract close-out checklist and archiving
- Lessons learned and feedback to future tenders
- Digital contract management tools and dashboards
- Preparing for audit review of contracts
完整的每日课程内容
The five days follow the order in which a contract is planned, delivered and closed.
- Day 1: the contract life cycle, Bahrain’s tender law and international frameworks
- Day 2: planning, risk allocation and contract start-up
- Day 3: performance, payment and change control
- Day 4: claims, remedies and dispute resolution
- Day 5: close-out, audit readiness and an improvement plan
完整的每日课程内容
First Day | Contract Life Cycle and Legal Framework
- Why value is lost after award: evidence from WorldCC research
- The contract manager’s role, authority and responsibilities
- Bahrain’s Decree-Law No. 36 of 2002 and Law No. 30 of 2026 changes
- The Tender Board, e-tendering and oversight bodies
- World Bank Procurement Regulations, September 2025 edition
- Contract types: lump sum, remeasurement, cost-plus, framework
- Performance-based and output-based contracting
- Structure of FIDIC 2017 Red, Yellow and Silver Books
- Mapping stakeholders and contract relationships
Workshop: Mapping a Contract’s Life Cycle Risks
Teams take a sample works contract and map every stage from award to final certificate. For each stage they identify who acts, what document records the action and where value could leak. Results are compared with the causes of delay reported for Bahrain’s road programme, such as utility clashes and late permits, and each team agrees three controls to add to its own process.
Second Day | Planning, Risk Allocation and Start-Up
- Contract Management Plan: purpose, timing and contents
- Building a contract risk register
- The risk-sharing continuum and who should carry each risk
- Drafting clear scope, specifications and acceptance criteria
- General and particular conditions: what to check
- Performance security, advance payment and insurance
- Contract start-up: site access, permits and mobilisation
- Kick-off meetings and communication protocols
- Setting KPIs and a reporting calendar
Workshop: Drafting a Contract Management Plan
Using the structure of the World Bank’s 2024 sample plan, each team drafts a Contract Management Plan for a road rehabilitation contract. The plan names the roles, sets five to eight KPIs, lists key dates and notice periods, and records the top ten risks with owners and responses. Facilitators review the drafts for gaps such as missing permit responsibilities or unclear acceptance tests.
Third Day | Performance, Payment and Change Control
- Progress monitoring and programme updates
- Measuring and certifying work for payment
- Price adjustment and its practical application
- Quality inspection, testing and non-conformance
- Change management procedures and delegated authority
- Valuing variations: rates, prices and fair valuation
- Value engineering proposals and how to assess them
- Supplier performance reviews and corrective actions
- Contract records and document control
Case Study: Variation Requests on an Urban Infrastructure Contract
This illustrative case is built on the delay causes publicly reported for Bahrain’s road projects: unmapped utilities, design changes requested by other agencies and additions to scope. Participants receive three variation requests, check them against the contract, value them using contract rates, and decide which need higher approval. They then draft the instruction letter and update the cost forecast.
Fourth Day | Claims, Remedies and Dispute Resolution
- Notices and time bars in FIDIC 2017 and the 2022 reprint
- Separating claims from Engineer determinations
- Extension of time and delay analysis basics
- Evaluating cost claims and supporting records
- Liquidated damages, set-off and withholding
- Suspension, termination for default and step-in
- Force majeure, limitation and exclusion of liability
- Dispute Avoidance and Adjudication Boards (DAAB)
- Mediation, expert determination and arbitration
- Fraud and corruption indicators during execution
Workshop: Claim and Response Simulation
Half the group acts as a contractor submitting an extension of time and cost claim; the other half acts as the employer’s team. Each side must follow notice periods, support its position with records and reach a determination or a negotiated outcome. Facilitators then show how the same dispute would move to a DAAB and what evidence would decide it.
Fifth Day | Close-Out and Institutional Improvement
- Taking-over, defects notification and final inspection
- Final accounts, retention release and securities
- 承包商绩效评价
- Contract close-out checklist and archiving
- Lessons learned and feedback to future tenders
- Digital contract management tools and dashboards
- Preparing for audit review of contracts
- Building a contract management function and procedures
- Personal action plans for each participant
Capstone Exercise: Contract Health Review and Improvement Plan
Each team reviews a live or recent contract from its own organisation, or a provided case file, using a contract health checklist covering planning, performance, changes, claims and records. Teams score the contract, identify the three weakest areas and present a 90-day improvement plan to a panel acting as senior management, which questions the costs, risks and owners.
Contract Management Training Methodology
The programme is practical. Short inputs are followed by exercises on real contract clauses, sample payment certificates and correspondence, so that participants apply each idea the same day.
本培训项目融合了:
- Short expert briefings on each stage of the life cycle
- Clause-by-clause reading of FIDIC and World Bank conditions
- Drafting a full Contract Management Plan
- Variation and claim valuation exercises
- Role-plays of progress meetings and negotiations
- Dispute simulations with DAAB-style decisions
- Illustrative cases based on publicly reported project issues
- Group work in mixed procurement, technical and finance teams
- Peer review of templates and checklists
- 每日反思如何在工作中应用
- 对学员自身合同进行综合评审
Facilitators are practitioners with experience of public and donor-financed contracts. Before the programme, participants can use Risalat’s free procurement maturity diagnostic to identify the gaps they want to focus on.
预期成果
Upon completion of this Contract Management Training, participants will be able to:
- Manage contracts against a written plan with clear KPIs
- Spot risk and value leakage early in delivery
- Certify payments with confidence and proper evidence
- Handle variations within authority and at fair value
- Respond to claims on time and on the merits
- Choose the right route when disputes arise
- Use remedies and securities correctly
- Close contracts cleanly and record lessons learned
- Prepare contract files that withstand audit
Organisations should see fewer late notices, clearer payment records and better-prepared tender documents within the first months after the training.
每位学员£2,950 · 通过发票和银行转账付款 · 5人及以上团体报名可享优惠
同一机构五人及以上:请在申请发票时索取团体价。
Ten or more: an in-house version for your institution may cost less per person. Ask for an in-house quote.
Registration closes in 58 days (30 Dec 2026)
Institutional Application of Contract Management Training
本培训项目帮助机构加强:
- Contract management procedures and manuals
- Delegation of authority for variations and payments
- Contract risk registers and reporting
- Supplier performance evaluation systems
- Coordination between procurement, technical and finance units
- Claims and dispute management procedures
- Document control and contract records
- Use of e-procurement and contract data
- Readiness for National Audit Office and financier reviews
- Feedback from contract delivery into future tenders
- Integrity controls during contract execution
学员将带着实用工具回到工作岗位,以提升:
- Contract Management Plan template
- Contract risk register
- KPI and performance scorecard
- Variation request and approval form
- Claims assessment checklist
- Notice and time-bar tracker
- Payment certification checklist
- Contract close-out checklist
Teams that want to measure the condition of their projects before or after the programme can use the project health check to see where contract delivery is slipping.
区域相关性与应用
中东
Gulf governments are delivering large infrastructure and services pipelines under national tender laws that are being updated, as Bahrain’s 2026 amendments show. Contract managers need to apply these rules alongside FIDIC-based conditions that are common in the region’s works contracts.
非洲
Many African ministries and PIUs manage contracts under World Bank, AfDB and other financier rules. The World Bank’s 2024 guidance and the September 2025 Regulations set expectations for contract management plans, KPIs and records that teams must meet during implementation reviews.
亚洲
Across South and Central Asia, large transport, energy and urban contracts often use FIDIC conditions and international contractors. Notices, claims and DAAB procedures are where projects most often lose time and money, and they are a core part of this programme.
欧洲
European public buyers increasingly focus on performance after award, supplier relationships and digital contract data, which mirrors the value erosion evidence from WorldCC research and gives participants a useful comparison.
Participants from different regions bring different laws but similar problems, which makes the exchange of practice one of the most useful parts of the week.
东道国概况:巴林
Manama is the capital and commercial centre of the Kingdom of Bahrain, a high-income Gulf economy with a long history as a trading and financial hub. The city offers modern business hotels and conference facilities, a compact layout and short travel times, which suit an intensive five-day programme.
Bahrain is a useful benchmark for contract management. Its central Tender Board publishes annual performance data, runs an e-tendering system used for most tenders, and reported strong growth in registered suppliers in 2024. The 2026 amendments to the tender law, the Strategic Projects Plan and parliamentary follow-up of audit findings give participants a live example of how a government updates its rules and oversight while delivering a large project pipeline.
Bahrain International Airport has direct flights to many cities in the Gulf, South Asia, Europe and Africa, and the King Fahd Causeway links the country to Saudi Arabia by road. Many nationalities can obtain an eVisa or a visa on arrival; requirements depend on nationality, so participants should check the official Bahrain eVisa service, and Risalat provides visa support letters on request.
Contract Management Training Deliverables
Risalat在培训前、培训期间和培训后提供全程服务,让学员能够专心学习。
培训开始前
- 学员课前评估
- 合同管理准备度评估
- Contract Management Resource Pack
- 课前阅读资料
- 免费签证支持与咨询
- 机场接机与欢迎协助
- 住宿(含早餐)
- 欢迎交流晚宴
培训期间
- Risalat培训礼包(背包、水瓶、马克杯、T恤、帽子、护照套、笔、笔记本、冰箱贴及钥匙扣)
- Comprehensive Contract Management Training Manual
- 合同管理计划模板
- Contract Risk Register Template
- KPI and Supplier Scorecard
- Variation and Claims Assessment Toolkit
- Notice and Time-Bar Tracker
- 实践研讨与模拟演练
- 小组讨论与同伴学习
- 每日午餐与茶歇
- 全面使用培训场地设施
- 装有数字学习资料的迷你平板电脑
- 实地考察(如适用)
- 城市休闲观光
培训结束后
- 结业证书
- Risalat培训项目参与表彰奖
- 培训后参考资料
- Contract Close-Out Checklist
- Personal 90-Day Contract Improvement Plan
- 培训后支持与跟进指导
- 培训项目报告
Ministries, agencies, PIUs and companies can also request this programme as a tailored in-house course built around their own contracts and procedures. Request a tailored proposal and Risalat will design it with your team.
Common Challenges in Contract Management, And How This Training Helps
How can we stop value leaking after the contract is signed?
Most leakage comes from weak planning and poor follow-up rather than from the tender itself. Day 2 builds a Contract Management Plan with KPIs and risk owners, and Day 5 adds a health check to catch problems early.
How should we handle frequent design changes and scope additions?
Day 3 sets out a change control procedure with delegated authority and fair valuation methods, practised on variation requests modelled on the delay causes reported for Bahrain’s road projects.
How do we respond to contractor claims without losing time or money?
Day 4 covers notices, time bars, delay analysis and cost evaluation, and the claim simulation lets participants practise both sides of a real negotiation.
How can we apply the 2026 changes to Bahrain’s tender law?
Day 1 explains the main changes in Law No. 30 of 2026, including entity thresholds and regulated negotiation, and how they affect contract planning and records.
How do we meet World Bank expectations during implementation reviews?
Days 1 and 2 align participants’ practice with the September 2025 Procurement Regulations and the 2024 contract management guidance, including plans, KPIs and documentation.
How can we avoid disputes going to arbitration?
Day 4 shows how early warnings, proper determinations and DAAB procedures settle most disagreements before they become formal disputes.
How do we prepare contract files that pass an audit?
Days 3 and 5 cover document control, payment evidence and close-out records, so that every decision can be traced and explained to auditors.
常见问题
本合同管理培训适合哪些人员?
Contract managers, procurement officers, project engineers, PIU staff, finance and legal officers, and supervision consultants who manage contracts after award.
本培训项目是否涵盖FIDIC合同?
Yes. It uses the FIDIC 2017 Red, Yellow and Silver Books as reprinted in 2022, with a focus on notices, claims, determinations and DAAB procedures.
是否适用于世界银行资助的项目?
Yes. Sessions follow the World Bank's Procurement Regulations (September 2025 edition) and its 2024 Contract Management Practice guidance.
学员能将哪些收获带回工作中?
A Contract Management Plan template, risk register, KPI scorecard, variation and claims toolkit, notice tracker and a personal 90-day improvement plan.
本培训项目能否以内训形式举办?
Yes. Institutions can request a tailored version built around their own contracts and procedures through Risalat's proposal form.
为何选择在麦纳麦举办本培训项目
本培训项目选在巴林麦纳麦举办,因为预期学员前往交通便利,且当地拥有适合开展实践性、互动式培训的场地。
The Effective Contract Management Training in Manama programme in February 2027 brings together officials and professionals. Sessions combine short inputs, case studies and group work on participants' own files, and the city's institutions can be added as a study visit on request.
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