Practical reading

Contract guides

Updated · September 2026

Read the contract before it runs the work

These pages explain Operative.law’s public contract work for project-based businesses in South Africa: review, agreement build, ongoing support, and the acceptance, sign-off and payment controls underneath them. This guide is general information, not legal advice.

1. What a fixed-fee contract review covers

A practical guide to the commercial review of scope, evidence, acceptance, payment and change before signature.

Read the review guide

2. Service agreements and SOWs

A practical guide to building the agreement or SOW around how project work will actually be delivered, accepted, changed and paid.

Read the build guide

3. Ongoing contract support

A practical guide to recurring contract support, defined queues, reusable positions and the boundary between a Contracts Desk and Flow Design.

Read the Desk guide

4. Acceptance, sign-off and payment

How project contracts can connect delivery evidence, a workable acceptance process, payment and controlled change.

Read the controls guide