EPEPCmodeAll agreements Ministry of Road Transport & Highways · March 2019

EPC Agreement decoded
Article & clause navigator

The revised standard Engineering, Procurement and Construction Agreement for National Highway and centrally sponsored road works — every Article and every clause, with the timelines, percentages and damages that each one carries, searchable in one place.

6Parts
27Articles
200Clauses
18Schedules
111Defined terms
315Pages

All 27 Articles

Click an Article to open its clauses · ★ marks clauses carrying a hard number or a deadline

Project lifecycle

What falls due at each stage, from the Letter of Acceptance to the Taking Over Certificate

Key numbers

Every percentage, period and rate in the Agreement, grouped by what it governs

Maintenance payment by year

Clause 14.1(i) — percentage of the Contract Price payable each year of the Maintenance Period

Paid as a monthly lump sum of 1/12th of the annual cost (Clause 19.6), adjusted quarterly on the WPI for all commodities (Clause 19.12) and reduced for non-compliance with Schedule-E under Schedule-M.

Price adjustment component weightages

Clause 19.10(e) — the percentages that govern price adjustment of the Contract Price

Indices are taken for the month three months prior to the month to which the IPC relates, against the Base Date: WPI for construction machinery, Ordinary Portland Cement, all commodities and Mild Steel Long Products; CPI for industrial workers for labour; the nearest refinery’s retail price for bitumen; and the IOC pump price for HSD.

Who does what

Every clause sorted by the party that carries the primary obligation · click a row to open it

Schedules A to R

The 18 schedules that form part of the Agreement and the clauses that drive them

Defined terms

All 111 terms defined in Clause 1.1 — every obligation in the Agreement turns on these