Construction procurement is particularly complex and risky. Forming a contract in construction may take lots of time and energy of both client and contractor. Therefore, standardisation inconstruction contract would help the buying organisation to save their precious resources. Furthermore, the wording of these model form contracts is accurate as it has been agreed among the professionals within an industry.

One of the advantage of using model forms of contract is the balanced of risk and reward allocation between the contractor, consultant engineer and the client.