How Kier Standardised Contract Management Across Projects, Teams and Supply Chain

The Challenge

Kier, one of the UK’s leading construction and infrastructure businesses, needed a more consistent way to manage contract activity across projects, teams and supply chain relationships. 

Before FastDraft, different parts of the business were working in different ways. There was no clearly defined mechanism for managing contract processes consistently across client-side and supply chain activity, which made it harder to maintain control, created inconsistency in execution and left audit trails harder to follow. For a business operating at Kier’s scale, that created unnecessary operational and commercial risk. 

“We didn’t have a defined mechanism for how we were managing the supply chain or clients. ” 

Kier needed a solution that could help teams work in a more standard way, supported by consistent guidance and training, without making day-to-day contract management more difficult. 

Contract Solution

Kier selected FastDraft following a structured review of the market and a clear set of requirements around both product fit and partnership. The business wanted a solution that would help standardise contract management in practice, be easy for teams to use, and support a more consistent way of working across a large contractor business. 

“We went to market with a series of requirements: ‘This is what we want from a product, from a partnership.’ … here we are today with a multi-year enterprise agreement.” 

FastDraft stood out because it gave Kier a consistent solution with standard training, standard guidance and a user experience that made adoption easier across the business. Rather than adding more complexity, it helped simplify contract management and support better day-to-day execution. That combination led to a multi-year enterprise agreement and a platform Kier could roll out with confidence.