Simple O/A Contract Templates
These agreement templates are a collection of 3 master documents related to Owner-Architect contracts: a Contract, a Letter of Engagement, and a Supplemental Authorization.
These documents were introduced in the posts linked above. You should get some useful ideas about contracts themselves or the process that can make it easy to manage getting a written contract.
The Simple Contract is a way to easily get the whole scope of work and fee documented using standard terms representing the way you do business. For the small-firm architect this keeps the contract work in scale with the size of the project.
The Letter of Engagement is a simple way to get an agreement as soon as you are asked to start work. It contains enough Terms and Conditions to lay a decent groundwork for your legal relationship with your client. Because it describes how you will get paid, it also is a good test to see if the client is for real. This Letter of Engagement is intended to be supplanted later with an AIA (or similar) contract; or with the Contract included here.
The third template is a simple one-page authorization form that you can use when the inevitable change in scope occurs or when additional services of another kind come up. This form gets the cost ramifications on the table as simply as possible.
You can view the documents in the seven page carousel below. (Note the arrows.)
You can download .pages and .docx files with this link.
