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JCT Target Cost Contract 2024: structure, Allowable Cost, Contract Fee, Adjusted Target Cost, pain/gain sharing, key schedules, drafting and amendment tips, administrative pitfalls, and comparison with NEC4 Option C

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Introduction

JCT issued the Target Cost Contract 2024 (TCC 2024) in June 2025. It arrived as the last agreement in the JCT 2024 suite of contracts. Within the JCT suite, it skipped the usual 2016 refresh. It also marked JCT’s inaugural target cost form, so there was no 2016 predecessor from which it evolved, unlike the majority of the 2024 contracts. This Practice Note examines the TCC 2024’s structure and language, and its defined terms and concepts, on a stand-alone basis, while providing practical tips and insight into how to use it in practice. Where appropriate, it identifies similarities and points of divergence when set against the other JCT 2024 contracts. Although new within the JCT stable, the structure and terminology, together with the familiar defined expressions and concepts, will be readily recognisable to readers who know the 2024 suite and the earlier suites. In essence, TCC 2024 functions as a design and build contract and therefore covers much of the same ground as the JCT Design and Build Contract 2024 (DB 2024), with the nature and basis of payment entitlement remaining the key difference between the two...

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Andrew Jeffcoat
Andrew Jeffcoat

Andrew is a construction and engineering solicitor with extensive experience of technically complex development projects spanning energy, infrastructure, retail, commercial, office and residential projects. He acts for both contractors and employers, and has extensive experience of FIDIC, JCT, NEC, ICC, MF/1 and bespoke contract suites, specialising in negotiating, drafting and providing training on and in connection with those contract forms and all other legal documents for construction and engineering projects. ...

Claire King
Claire King

Claire is recommended in Legal 500 for Contentious Construction and International Arbitration and listed as a Thought Leader in the Lexology Index (previously Who’s Who). She is an experienced partner at Fenwick Elliott, a leading specialist firm in the field of construction and energy. She is on the steering committee for the King’s College and Adjudication Society study of Adjudication as well as serving on the Adjudication Society Committee as Secretary and has been published in numerous journals. ...

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