When you need it
Use the contract risk register during tender review, negotiation and delivery when actual wording may create exposure. Refresh it after amendments, scope changes or events that activate a previously identified risk trigger.
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Contract Risk Register
Track clauses, allocation, notices, time bars, payment, liability, change, termination and dispute risks with owners and actions.
How to use this templateThis Excel template contains prepared working sheets and completion notes on a separate sheet. Enter your project data and review the completed workbook before use.
This editable workbook helps you organise project information. Check any included formulas, assumptions and results before use; it does not replace professional review.
The form prepares a separate brief; it does not fill the Word or Excel file.
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Learning
How to use this template
What it helps you decide
It translates clauses into practical management decisions and mitigation actions. The team can see how an obligation or allocation might affect delivery, payment or liability without confusing commercial concern with established legal interpretation.
How to complete it
- Identify the applicable contract version and document precedence, then map the relevant clause to an identifiable trigger and potential consequence for the project.
- Record evidence and assumptions supporting the exposure, examining scope, programme and commercial interfaces within the agreed legal and project-management review remit for that assessment.
- Propose a practical mitigation and decision owner, distinguish negotiation proposals from agreed amendments, and maintain decision evidence as the contract or project circumstances evolve.
Who prepares and reviews it
The contracts manager coordinates commercial, planning and technical contributors, involving qualified legal counsel where interpretation requires it. Decision owners review proposed mitigations according to actual negotiation authority and project delegations.
A mistake to avoid
Do not import familiar clause meanings from another contract form; wording, amendments, precedence and applicable law can materially change the exposure and available response.
Illustrative example
Illustrative example: a draft supply contract links payment to a broad completion condition while installation is outside the supplier's control. The register records the clause and dependency. Commercial and legal reviewers assess a narrower milestone proposal before the authorized negotiator decides the response.
Document contents
- Clause mapping
- Exposure pathway
- Mitigation
- Decision tracking
Required inputs
- Executed or proposed contract and precedence clauses
- Scope, programme and commercial assumptions
- Legal and project-management review remit
Practical tools.
Professional judgment.
Confirm the adopted edition, local amendments, National Annex where relevant, and contract requirements.
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