Solomons’ Clause 10 Collective partners: collaboration lessons for NEC project teams
Reviewed by Tom Sullivan
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Quantity surveyors Solomons Europe and NEC specialist Dr Jon Broome have confirmed AVRS and demolition contractor Meldrums as new partners in the Clause 10 Collective, a collaboration initiative built around NEC’s mutual trust and co-operation provisions. The group aims to pool commercial, demolition and dispute-avoidance expertise to improve delivery on NEC-procured infrastructure schemes, particularly where early contractor involvement and complex enabling works are critical. For project teams, this signals growing structured support for collaborative risk management and more consistent application of NEC Clause 10 behaviours on live sites.
Technical Brief
- Clause 10 Collective is structured around NEC4 contracts’ core Clause 10 collaboration obligations and behaviours.
Our Take
Solomons Europe’s role in brokering £19M of SME work packages on Sellafield’s £7bn PPP framework suggests the Clause 10 Collective is likely aimed at formalising that kind of collaborative commercial support for smaller suppliers on major infrastructure programmes.
Within our infrastructure coverage, Solomons Europe appears mainly in connection with complex framework and alliance-style contracts rather than single-project builds, so AVRS and Meldrums joining the Clause 10 Collective positions them to tap into that higher-value, programme-level work.
Having a contracts specialist such as Dr Jon Broome associated with the Clause 10 Collective signals a push towards more sophisticated NEC-style contract governance, which can be critical for SMEs trying to manage risk on multi-year frameworks like Sellafield’s PPP.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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