Executive Summary For this second assessment in CIPS practitioner qualification, it evaluate role of contract terms and conditions.  By using ADNOC Onshore organisation as the organisation of focus, the role of terms and conditions to enhance management of risks of quality, time extension, costs overruns  and unethical issues which affect stakeholders. As part of this assessment, the performance measures and management in ADNOC Onshore practices have equally been put into consideration. For ADNOC Onshore which operates in United Arab Emirates onshore and offshore operations, the terms and conditions are identified as appropriate for enhancing the organisation competitiveness in this sector. This is since the terms and conditions influence on the risk level and power held to implement contracts. In regard to the findings, they indicate that the terms and conditions are appropriate for ensuring that the organisation is well positioned to engage most qualified suppliers. The relevance of using the terms and conditions are essential for ensuring success in solving the different issues faced. Further, from the different findings, they evidence the terms and conditions as force majeure, performance, quality requirements, cost management, indemnity, insurance cover and risks. Also, the findings note that for ADNOC Onshore different departments working in synch, the terms and conditions are identified as essential to link them with all their departments. This is for ADNOC Onshore ensuring dominance of their oil and gas sector maintaining competitiveness in their practice. Finally, battle of forms have been used with their importance guiding establishment of mutual agreement on best practice to implement contracts. The outcome of this is different terms and conditions existing with a mutual agreement attained. At the end, from the different gaps and challenges identified in this report, the suggested recommendations are;

• Improve the awareness level amongst the PS&M teams for aligning their terms and conditions in different contracts
• Establishing various terms and conditions for their different spend categories
• Mutually agree on the different terms and conditions for solving battle of the forms issue
• To initiate technology and innovativeness for the overall PS&M operations
• Be able to implement various KPIs and SLAs on contract adoption

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Today, in oil and gas sector in UAE, it is encountering immense pressures from different stakeholders for addressing tendering process in their contracts management. Nevertheless, there exist less literature which has evaluate the implication of incorporation of technologies for enhancing issues linked with accessing, delivering timelines and input. This is through developing a system which enhance one-on-one communication reducing the entire contracts evaluation cycle. The process would have a positive implication on ADNOC and their different suppliers by managing issues associated with access, timeline of provision, communication, paper usage and input therefore reduced tendering evaluation process. The different deliverables for the current project would include the following;

• Improved engagement of different stakeholders in tendering process of contracts process
• Increased costs savings by reducing communication barriers and also reducing the number of employees working in tendering process
• An effective data management and recording for ensuring success in evaluation and use of the data for contracts tendering process metrics
• Effective management of issues in the contracts evaluation and recommend best strategies in their mitigation during tendering process
• To effectively pursue trend analysis to understand the history of evaluations and effectively use the data in managing tendering process