Make contracts easy with CEMAR
To collaborate effectively, drive consistency and free teams from administration, a cloud-based contract management system is essential.
CEMAR is built around events; not documents and combines industry-leading knowledge and expertise to make the management of complex contracts simple. Easy to use and rapid to deploy, it reinforces positive behaviours in a shared and secure online environment.
CEMAR is a sophisticated and dedicated solution for NEC (specifically NEC3 and NEC4), FIDIC and other contract types. Created upon a first-hand need for a solution to the administrative demands of a large construction contract, it has been developed by industry experts and practitioners, is acknowledged by name in all NEC4 contracts and is underpinned by several decades of contract management experience in the industry.
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"Contract compliance has increased, administration time has significantly decreased and both the projects and the site has valuable real-time management information for reporting and to help make decisions."
Commercial Manager, Dounreay Site Restoration Limited
CEMAR at a glance
Click Read More for an overview of the many ways CEMAR can save you time.
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Features
- Quality-assured software, developed by leading industry experts and practitioners.
- Acknowledged contributor to NEC4 and ISO27001, 9001 accredited.
- Collaborative environment, single truth of shared events, registers and reminders.
- Compliant communications with clauses, appropriate verbs, defined terms and actions.
- User and process-orientated governance, delegated authorities, approvals and financial/time limits.
- Intuitive Superuser wizards facilitate rapid-configuration of contracts, users and governance.
- Secure data, UK-based infrastructure, hourly back-ups and Two-Factor Authentication.
- Real-time reports for contract, framework, programme and portfolios featuring charts and dashboards.
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Benefits
- Simplifies the management of sophisticated contracts (NEC3, NEC4, FIDIC and more).
- Fosters collaboration, promotes trust and supports cultural change.
- Embedded contract knowledge with intuitive, party and user based workflows.
- Reduces commercial risk through improved contract compliance.
- Autonomy through Superuser model with extensive help and support.
- Reminders, countdowns and alerts ensure teams aware of outstanding actions.
- Extensive events log, communications archive and governance audit trail.
- Powerful business intelligence critical to managing behaviours and identifying trends.
Save time for the things you love
We focus on the user experience and are content when engineers, supervisors, managers and consultants are spending time on their profession instead of chasing administration.
Ready to know more? Read on for an in-depth view of our CEMAR contract management solution.
Keep in line with contract compliance
CEMAR achieves a collaborative single truth with shared contract event registers and covers a broad variety of contracting procedures including early warnings, compensation events, programme submission and acceptance, payment and much more. These specifically tailored workflows automatically maintain contract price, dates and other particulars.
With contract type and Party sensitivity, the system presents workflow accordingly, validating at key stages to drive consistency and compliance. Communications reference clause numbers and include appropriate verbs, defined terms and actions. A library of configurable templates affords rapid set-up of new contracts and achieves consistent contractual compliance.
Stay up to date with action reminders
Party-sensitive reminders and email alerts allow you and your team to stay aware of any outstanding actions within the contract. On the central reminders page, CEMAR also gives ‘days to go’ countdowns and a RAG (red, amber, green) status on outstanding actions. Teams can delegate and assign actions to other specific members and view the other Parties’ actions to enhance collaboration.
An aggregated reminders page is available within CEMAR Analytics bringing together outstanding actions across multiple contracts along with numerous charts and reports which track communication and contract performance.
Audit, archive and remain in control
CEMAR gives control over governance through permissions, user threshold settings and internal approval workflows, allowing delegation of actions and events under the contract.
Teams may collaborate on drafting, reviewing and communication of events, with all review and approvals captured in a Party-private audit log. Also maintained is a complete audit trail of user history, common event registers and actions with unique numbering, time and date stamps. All communications are automatically archived into a shared document log. This significantly reduces data entry while maintaining an accessible archive which may be downloaded at any time by authorised users.
Unlock valuable overview and insights with real-time reporting
A large variety of aggregated reports over a broad range of data sets and behavioural metrics are available via CEMAR Analytics. Charts, dashboards and reports are generated in real-time to enhance business intelligence and enable users to track and benchmark team, supplier and contract performance across a portfolio of contracts.
Data warehouse and web-service options provide for export, integration and reconciliation with other software applications.
Get in touch
Our team of Account Managers and Support Agents are ready to answer any questions. Get in touch with us via the link, or simply press the Book a Demo button if you are ready to see more of the CEMAR software.
Read below to find the accreditations thinkproject UK, home of development for CEMAR contract management, holds.
Accreditations
| ISO 9001: 2015 | thinkproject UK holds certificate number: FS558261 and operates a Quality Management System which complies with the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 for the following scope: The development and hosting of software for contract management and programme control for the construction and other market sectors. The development and provision of training services for these contracts and for the Company's own software solutions. The provision of consultancy advice services. thinkproject UK Limited ISO 9001 QMS Certificate |
| ISO 27001: 2013 | thinkproject UK holds certificate number: 16043-HAS-001 and operates an Information Security Management System which complies with the requirements of ISO 27001:2013 for the following scope: Development, testing, deployment, configuration, support and hosting of software for contract management and programme controls, in accordance with Statement of Applicability version 1. thinkproject UK Limited ISO 27001 ISMS Certificate |
| ISO 22301: 2012 | thinkproject UK has passed the ISO 22301 audit which refers to our Business Continuity Management System and is now certified for the following scope: Establishing, implementing, controlling, auditing and improving business continuity. With this certification we have passed and will maintain a documented management system focused on reducing the likelihood, responding to and recovering from any disruptive incidents for thinkproject UK. thinkproject UK ISO 22301: 2012 Certificate |
| CE+ | thinkproject UK has been assessed against the Cyber Essentials Scheme Test Specification and achieved the ‘Cyber Essentials PLUS’ level of certification. The scope covered; thinkproject UK Limited SaaS system CEMAR (secure.cemar.co.uk and secure.cemar.hk), perimeter network and office workstations. thinkproject UK Limited CE+ Certificate |
| NEC | thinkproject MD and CEMAR founder, Ben Walker, is an NEC author, consultant, tutor and ICE examiner. CEMAR is acknowledged by name in all NEC4 contracts. Visit NEC website. |
| ICO | thinkproject UK is a ‘Data Controller’ under the GDPR. The Board of Directors are ultimately responsible for implementation of the GDPR, with responsibility for the overall management of the implementation of the legislation lying with the Data Protection Manager. |
thinkproject UK's notification of its processing of personal information is available within its Privacy Statement. All staff are required to adhere to the requirements of current data protection legislation and thinkproject UK’s Privacy Statement. View our Privacy Statement. | |
| CPD | thinkproject UK deliver CPD accredited introductory demonstrations, workshop training, online video tutorials and webinars and contribute to delegates continuing professional development. View our CPD profile. |
| WISE | thinkproject UK is a corporate member of the WISE campaign which promotes women in science, technology, and engineering. View our WISE profile. |
| NDA | The Supply Chain Charter aims to foster good working relations across the NDA (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) Estate supply chain, with all parties signing up to a set of principles encouraging mutually beneficial and rewarding relationships. |
| CCSS | CEMAR Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions are available on the latest iteration of G-Cloud, the Government’s Digital Marketplace. View our G-Cloud Digital Marketplace. |
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"CEMAR is an essential tool for our complex programme of works. It plays a crucial role in the timely and accurate administration of our contracts and maintenance of essential records."
Commercial Lead, NNB, Hinkley Point C
Related Projects
Our CEMAR software is used on a variety of projects, find out more in our project reports.
Hinkley Point C, Nuclear New Build Mega Project to Power the Future
Nuclear New Build Hinkley Point C are procuring works using the FIDIC suite of contracts alongside NEC. We developed an off-the-shelf FIDIC module to support contract administration in a single application with integrated reporting.
Contract Management for Mega-Project High Speed Two
High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd will join up Britain, stopping at over 25 stations between Scotland and the South East, with the first phase covering Birmingham to London, and an expected completion date of 2026. HS2 have been using thinkproject's CEMAR software since 2015 to manage their contract administration, including NEC3 ECC, PSC and TSC, along with ICC Contracts for ground investigations.
Contract Management Software for Heathrow Airport Expansion
Implementation of CEMAR across Heathrow Airport’s Capital and Maintenance contracts is proving to be a great success, with on-going use since 2011 which has supported several portfolios, including Terminal Restoration and Modernisation and Products and Capacity Optimisation.