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JCT Target Cost Contract 2024: key features, payment and risk-sharing, including Allowable Cost, Contract Fee, Difference Share, and TCC Sub-Contract pricing options

Published on: 27 June 2025

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JCT unveiled its intention to produce a new target cost form at its annual Construction Industry Parliamentary Reception in June 2023. Two years on, on 25 June 2025, the Target Cost Contract 2024 family was issued publicly, marking the completion of the JCT 2024 suite.

This piece explores, in brief, the principal features of that contract family, including its approach to payment and its difference sharing mechanisms, with particular emphasis on the main Target Cost Contract 2024.

Reference copies of every document in the JCT 2024 suite (including the JCT Target Cost Contract 2024 family) are available to access on Lexis+® Construction via the following:

  • the ‘Forms’ tab on our sub-topic ‘JCT contracts 2024’ (within the main topic, ‘Standard form construction contracts’), and
  • Practice Note: JCT contracts 2024—reference copies

For further information about the other contracts published as part of the JCT 2024 suite, see Practice Note: JCT contracts 2024—what’s changed?

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