Challenges facing construction contracts in Iraq

الملخص EN

This paper aims at exploring the most important challenges which are facing the construction contracts in Iraq, and trying to analyze these challenges from various aspects.

Addition, we have put necessary recommendations to support this sector through some notes and appropriate plans.

Challenges are classified into eleven major problems (Political Problems, financial problems, administrative problems, problems related to the tender documents (contracts, drawings), problems related to the specifications and materials adaptation (Quality), problems related to the contract parties themselves, problems related to the sector environment, problems related to the natural environment, problems related to the arbitrations and disputes solving, problems related to the technology uses, problems related to the career ethics).

These varieties have been agreed upon through questionnaire that was made for a number of the relevant authorities about the challenges facing them in construction sector.

Each one of them contains a minor problems, it will be discussed such as (Rates burning due to intense competition between contractors, awarding the bid to the lowest prices not to the most accurate, delaying paying owed payments by the owner, the changing value of currency exchange).

Finally the recommendations and appropriate procedures to avoid these problems, it was (Price estimation before tendering, Awarding the nearest price, rejecting offers less than 25% of the estimated), and there is other recommendations we have mentioned in this paper for another more challenges.