| Currently, opportunities and challenges coexist in Gansu electric power design institute’ development, while, some problems and difficulties still remain. In this case, the leaders of the company are aware of the serious crisis of survival, and believe that the primary task of development is to enhance the scale and expand the market..However, in the case of continuing to strengthen the "quantity" in the development, general contract management faces various problems, for instance, the effectiveness of the contract management has been insignificant, the contract binding has been weak, and the awareness of contracting has been lacking. These problems seriously restrict the management level of the Gansu Electric Power Design Institute, and has caused severe damage to the economic benefit of the project.This article analyzes the existing problems of the management status of Gansu electric power design institute, and the causes of general contract management. The general contract plays an important role in the general contracting project of Gansu electric power design institute.General contracting business has become one of the main businesses of the enterprise, as the general contract is the core of the project management, and the legal basis for the enjoyment of the rights, as well as for processing the project implementation of various dissensions and disputes.The basic present situation of the general contract management focuses on the text and neglects the contract execution management. The problems are mainly concentrated in the bidding, negotiation, cost, risk and sub fields. The above problems are mainly caused by the following reasons:the quality of contract management personnel are flawed, the internal controls are inadequate, risk awareness under the pressure of increasing incomes are absent.The article puts forward the optimization scheme. The optimization must adhere to the following principles:the legal compliance principles, prevention principles, classification management principles, process management principles, comprehensive management principles, and key management principles.The general contract management optimization objectives can be divided into the basic objectives and the ultimate goal. The basic goal is to control contracting business risk and improve the overall profit margin through the management in terms of quality, schedule, cost and risk. The ultimate goal is to improve the ability of enterprises to monitor and manage risk, improve the economic efficiency of enterprises, enhance corporate image and market competitiveness by improving the general contract management level.Strengthening the tender bidding management must further investigate project background, carefully study the contract documents, thoroughly understand customer payments, and carry on investigation and study in detail.Personnel needs to pay attention to business negotiation and contract signing process management, especially to the following terms:the scope of process control payment, methods, delay penalties, performance index penalty, and customer responsibility. Cost control is mainly to strengthen the agreement on irresistible force, make clear of the range of irresistible force, pay attention to handling irresistible force, and achieve agreement on bearing the loss.Personnel in charge needs to strengthens the risk control, improve the risk consciousness, strengthen and improve the efficiency of risk analysis, control and processing.They also need to attach importance to subcontract management, determine a reasonable selection of subcontractors timing, and strengthen the control and management of the subcontract the project implementation process.The article also analyzes the systematic safeguard of implementing management optimization programs. The general contract management optimization ought to establish upon a certain level of systematic safeguard, which consists of:optimization and adjustment of enterprise organization, establishment of enterprise culture, and strengthening system construction of internal control of the enterprise. |