Karim Mohsen Ahmed, Senior Tendering and Contracts Specialist

Karim Mohsen Ahmed

Senior Tendering and Contracts Specialist

ECG Engineering Consultants Group S.A.

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Highway and Airports
Experience
19 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 2 Months

Senior Tendering and Contracts Specialist at ECG Engineering Consultants Group S.A.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since November 2009

Successfully practiced Contracts Administration, Claims analysis, Tendering, Biding negotiations, contractors selection, Risk Management in a professional and pro-active manner that resulted in Early Dispute Resolution.

Responsibilities in the following projects include:

• Preparing, reviewing and administering contracts during the various stages of the construction process.
• Analyze and understand commercial conditions in preparing contracts.
• Co-ordinate with Estimator and Commercial Manager regarding key legal contract ramifications.
• Provide amendments to the original contracts.
• Prepare the contract templates based on the contract.
• Detect special circumstances or breaches of contract which have taken place.
• Investigate claims to establish responsibility based on contract provisions or onsite errors.
• Finalize claim investigation.
• Conduct claim negotiation meetings.
• Conducting post award and negotiation meetings.
• Bid preparation/evaluation.
• Replying to queries raised by bidders.
• Representing the client/contractor in pre-bid meetings, bid opening sessions and negotiation meetings.
• Preparing selection criteria for short listing of contractors.
• Conducting post award meetings.
• Coordinating on the contract process and procedures.
• Practicing successful pre bid/ post bid negotiations sessions.
• Involvement in every aspect of the projects and working closely with the core team.
• Identify the elements of project design and construction likely to give rise to disputes and claims.
• Conducting pre - tender study in contractual matters.
• Visiting the sites and collecting the relevant field data and market survey of the raw material costs, leads and specific conditions prevailing at site.

Tendering Department Acting Manager at ECG Engineering Consultants Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since March 2014
Senior Tendering and Contracts Specialist at ECG Engineering Consultants Group S.A.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2007 to February 2009
Contract Administrator at Al Shafar General Contracting
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2006 to November 2007
Project Engineer at Al Shafar General Contracting
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2005 to October 2006
Site Engineer at Al Shafar General Contracting
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2004 to December 2005
Site Engineer at Alexandria for Construction
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2004 to December 2004

Education

Bachelor's degree, Highway and Airports
  • at Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University
  • July 2004

Specialties & Skills

Risk Assessment
Bid Preparation
Client Handling
Negotiating Contracts
Risk management and Early Warning
Time Management
Tendering (Bid preparation/evaluation)
Claims preparation and analysis
Negotiation
Contracts preparation
Early dispute resolution
Contracts management

Languages

English
Expert
French
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Change orders and job delays (Training)
Training Institute:
Society of Engineers Institute - Dubai
General conditions for construction Contracts (Training)
Training Institute:
Society of Engineers Institute - Dubai
Construction Claims and Disputes Resolution (Training)
Training Institute:
Hill international