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 and is a construction contract to which the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (HGCRA, also known as the Construction Act) applies. Business Clients include charities, religious organisations and not-for-profit bodies.
The RIBA/BIID Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services may not be suitable or sufficiently comprehensive for complex projects. For projects where the RIBA/BIID Concise Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services is not suitable, the Client and the Interior Designer should take appropriate legal advice on alternative legal terms.
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 Clients home, if the Client has elected to contract in their own name, i.e. not as a limited company or other legal entity, or where the property will be let. A contract with a consumer Client is subject to the Consumer Rights Act 2015. The RIBA recommends the use of the RIBA/BIID Domestic Professional Services Contract 2020: Interior Design Services for work undertaken for a consumer client.
