Dear Presenter,

You are kindly invited to respond to this Call for Abstracts for the conference of “Kuwait Oil Contractors” The conference will be held on 11 – 12 December, 2011 in Kuwait. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 16 October, 2011.

Submitted abstracts may belong to the following categories:

• Supplier relationship management and market management, Risk management culture.
• Performance Standards – Allow for contractor performance monitoring; Establish alerts to provide notification when performance conditions are not met.
• Procedure for the control of contractors: management and staff roles and responsibilities; Management arrangement – Contract works may face particular problems and some of the issues which require extra consideration when planning safe working arrangements.
• Contract risk management: Overview,; structured approaches to managing risk; Risk management strategies; hierarchy of risk responses; Risk financing; Risk management programs
• Developing KPI: establishing performance goals and objectives.
• What is Contractor Performance Management: Key features and Benefits
• Contract Management Challenges: What if things going wrong? Assessing risk from sub-contracting; What if payment is disputed.
• Effective Contract Performance Management: How to monitor contract performance and take any necessary action and apply remedies to protect the rights of the Government. Ability to use performance metrics to evaluate actual performance against goals
• Developing matrix for Contract Performance Management