New RIBA/BIID Client Contracts Launched - Including Digital Versions

The much anticipated RIBA/BIID Professional Services Contracts have arrived and offer a host of benefits to interior designers. The contracts have two versions – Concise and Domestic – to suit your project.

Easy to understand

The RIBA/BIID Professional Services Contracts provide three key benefits:

1. the language used in the contracts are succinct and easy to understand, compared to other standard forms of contracts
2. the terms of the contracts are fair and equitable for both the Client and the Interior Designer
3. the clause structure used in the contracts avoids the use of large numbers of sub-sub clauses and large amounts of cross-referencing between provision.

Create Digitally

You can create your RIBA/BIID Professional Services Contract online – it is quick, simple and straightforward. Generating your professional services contract online allows you to create, alter, manage and view all of your contracts in one secure location before printing the final contract.

Save Money

• 50% discount for BIID members in 2020
• Copies are required for each Party and it is legally advisable that both parties to the contract each have an original signed version.  Preparing your contract online will allow you to issue final copies of the contract to each party at no extra cost.

Not sure if you need a contract? Take a look at our Why Do You Need a Contract article for guidance.

RIBA/BIID Domestic Professional Services Contract 2020 : Interior Design Services

This contract is an appointment contract for interior design services for domestic projects of any value

The RIBA Domestic Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services has been devised as an agreement between an interior designer and a consumer client relating to work to the client’s own home, including renovations and extensions and is suitable for commissions for simple domestic interior design projects of any value.

Under the CDM Regulations 2015, on interior design projects where the interior designer is required or chooses to undertake, or subcontract, some building interior decoration work, a Principal Designer must be appointed to plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the Pre-construction Phase of a project; and a Principal Contractor must be appointed to take control over the Construction Phase of the project and to plan, manage, monitor and coordinate the health and safety during the Construction Phase. This contract has the option for the Interior Designer to be appointed as the Principal Designer and/or the Principal Contractor.

The RIBA/BIID Domestic Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services is not suitable for works where the property is to be let or for commercial or residential work undertaken for business clients, including charities, religious organisations, not-for-profit bodies, or where the Client is a public authority. The RIBA recommends the use of the RIBA/BIID Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services for commercial projects.

Key features

• is based on the RIBA Concise Professional Services Contract but is suitable for simple domestic projects of any value
• is for use with a consumer Client, relating to work to the client’s own home – including renovations and extensions – provided that the Client has elected to undertake the work in their own name and not as a limited company or other legal entity or where the property will be let
• is compliant with the Consumer Rights Act 2015
• focuses on the Interior Designer providing interior design services, including the provision of FF&E and undertaking minor building interior decoration work
• It includes the provision for the Interior Designer to undertake the services of a Principal Designer and/or Principal Contractor, under the CDM Regulations 2015.

Pricing

Paper copies will be available to purchase at RIBA Books mid October.

Login/signup to RIBA Contracts Digital to buy a digitial contract. Members will need to get the 50% discount code first before purchasing.

A specimen copy can be downloaded here

RIBA/BIID Concise Professional Services Contract 2020 : Interior Design Services

This contract is an appointment contract for interior design services for simple, non-complex, commercial projects

The RIBA/BIID Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services is suitable where the Interior Designer undertakes a commission for interior design services for simple, non-complex, commercial projects of any value and where the interior designer is undertaking the installation of Interior Designer FF&E. Where any building work is required then a separate building contract, such as the RIBA Concise Building Contract, should be used.

The RIBA/BIID Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services is devised as an agreement between an interior designer and a business client or a public authority. Business clients include charities, religious organisations and not-for-profit bodies.

The RIBA/BIID Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services is not suitable for non-commercial work undertaken for a ‘consumer’ client, such as work done to the client’s home. A contract with a consumer client is subject to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the RIBA recommends the use of the RIBA/BIID Domestic Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services for work undertaken for a consumer client.

Key features

• is suitable for simple, non-complex commercial projects of any value
• is devised as an agreement between an Interior Designer and a business client or a public authority (including charities, religious organisations and not-for-profit bodies) and is a ‘construction contract’ to which the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (HGCRA, also known as the Construction Act) applies.
• focuses on the Interior Designer providing interior design services, including the provision of FF&E and undertaking and the installation of Interior Designer FF&E

Pricing

Paper copies will be available to purchase at RIBA Books mid October.

Login/signup to RIBA Contracts Digital to buy a digitial contract. Members will need to get the 50% discount code first before purchasing

A specimen copy can be downloaded here

Integration with other RIBA documents

The RIBA Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services has been specifically written to integrate with the RIBA Building Contracts and the RIBA Plan of Work.