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Construction Series (C-Series): Documents in this series include contracts for construction under design-bid-build and design-negotiate-build project delivery methods. The series includes bidding/solicitation documents for selecting a contractor; standard agreement forms for the owner-contractor prime contract; general conditions and supplementary conditions of the construction contract; bid bonds, performance bond, payment bond, and warranty bond; various administrative forms; a construction subcontract; and commentary.
Construction Manager as Advisor Series (CMA-Series): This family of documents, adapted from the C-Series and other EJCDC document families, is intended for projects involving an owner-hired construction manager serving alongside the owner-hired engineer. The CMA-Series includes prime contract documents, solicitation documents, construction subcontract owner-construction manager agreement, a scope of services for the owner-engineer agreement, bonds, administrative forms, and a commentary.
Construction Manager at Risk Series (CMAR-Series ): 2023 Construction Manager at Risk Series is a comprehensive new set of documents – including contracts, bonds, contractor-procurement documents, and administrative forms – intended for use on projects in which the owner retains a construction manager at risk to provide preconstruction services and then construct the project.
Design-Build Series (D-Series): Documents in this series include the owner-design-builder prime contract and related solicitation documents; an owner-consultant agreement; design-builder-engineer subcontract; construction subcontract; bonds; various administrative forms, and a commentary document. EJCDC’s former Remediation (“R-Series”) Documents, discontinued in 2015, were a form of design-build adapted for environmental remediation; the current D-Series documents may be adapted for use on environmental remediation projects.
Engineering Series (E-Series: Engineer-Subconsultant; Owner-Engineer and other E documents): Agreements for professional services, include various owner-engineer agreements, and sub-agreements between engineer and other design professionals, and between the engineer and a subcontractor furnishing labor and materials (non-professional services). The E-Series also includes a teaming agreement, peer review agreement, project management agreement, and commentary.
Engineering Series (E-Series: Engineer-Subconsultant; Owner-Engineer and other E documents): Agreements for professional services, include various owner-engineer agreements, and subagreements between engineer and other design professionals, and between the engineer and a subcontractor furnishing labor and materials (non-professional services). The E-Series also includes a teaming agreement, peer review agreement, project management agreement, and commentary.
Engineering Series (E-Series: Engineer-Subconsultant; Owner-Engineer and other E documents): Agreements for professional services, include various owner-engineer agreements, and subagreements between engineer and other design professionals, and between the engineer and a subcontractor furnishing labor and materials (non-professional services). The E-Series also includes a teaming agreement, peer review agreement, project management agreement, and commentary.
Procurement Series (P-Series): This family of documents is intended for the direct purchase by a buyer (typically a project owner) from a seller of engineered equipment and materials (“furnish and deliver” obligations for design-bid-deliver or design-negotiate-deliver), including provisions for the assignment of the procurement contract to a construction contractor (retained under documents developed using the C-Series). The series includes administrative forms and commentary.
Public-Private Partnership Documents (P3-Series): EJCDC publishes documents for the agreement of a public owner and a private entity (sometimes called a “concessionaire”) to partner in a long-term contract for providing public improvements. The P3-Series documents include optional provisions for financing, operating, and maintaining the public improvement.
- P3-508 Public-Private Partnership Agreement
Some EJCDC contract documents are approved by Rural Utilities Service (RUS) for procurement of equipment and/or services by loan and grant recipients. Approved documents are included in this collection. Only current EJCDC documents should be used for Water and Waste Disposal (WWD) projects.

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EJCDC’s guiding principles

EJCDC’s overall mission is to develop, publish, and maintain high-quality standard design and construction contract documents; to promote the use of the documents in the engineering profession and construction industry; and to provide guidance and information to users of EJCDC’s documents. EJCDC strives to identify, acknowledge, and fairly allocate risks, using a balanced approach that assigns a specific risk to the party best able to manage and control that risk. EJCDC’s publications are written to be objective and fair to all parties; to recognize and respect the parties’ separate interests, capabilities, and roles; and to contribute to the continual improvement of professional engineering services and construction contracting practices throughout the United States. It is the intent of EJCDC that its documents be thorough, practical, and even-handed.

The members of EJCDC represent a major cross-section of the professional design and construction community. The EJCDC documents are prepared with the active participation of representatives of project owner groups, contractors, professional liability insurers, surety and insurance experts, the engineering and design community, design-builders, construction managers, construction lawyers, and other project stakeholders, all of whom are active participants in document development and revision.

EJCDC is administered and supported in equal measure by the following national sponsoring organizations:

American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)

Use of EJCDC documents

The EJCDC documents are commonly used on both public and private projects, and are intended for projects principally designed by engineers, including public infrastructure; water and wastewater treatment and conveyance facilities; other utility work; solid waste handling and processing facilities; transportation projects; production and processing facilities; electrical projects; plumbing and fire protection projects; engineered instrumentation, controls, and information technology projects; site development work; environmental remediation projects; street, curb, and gutter work; tunneling and excavating projects; and similar applications.

Published articles on EJCDC's contract documents

New series of contract documents enhance construction projects (Civil Engineering Source | January 17, 2023)
Legal Brief: Understanding risk allocation on design-build transportation projects (Civil Engineering magazine | June 28, 2023)

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Public-private partnership

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