Information protocol
The contractual schedule that binds ISO 19650 information obligations, the CDE and standards to an appointment.
An information protocol is the contractual schedule appended to an appointment that binds the information-management obligations, the CDE setup and the ISO 19650 standards to the contract. Incorporated as a schedule so it has contractual effect, it agrees the rights, roles and responsibilities of the parties for achieving ISO 19650-2 compliance.
Its job is to make a general obligation — "manage information in accordance with ISO 19650" — actually enforceable. It requires compliance with the project's Information Particulars (the project-specific documents: the EIR, the BIM execution plan, the CDE configuration), obliges the appointing party to establish and support the CDE, and requires the parties to prepare the documentation ISO 19650 calls for (risk register, task information delivery plans, and so on).
It leans on the technical documents rather than replacing them: the EIR sets out the process and workflows, and the BEP explains how the BIM process will be executed to meet the EIR — the protocol gives them contractual teeth. ISO 19650-2 envisages exactly this kind of schedule, and the UK BIM Framework publishes a template information protocol (based on the earlier CIC BIM Protocol) to support contracts. There is no exact UNI 11337 equivalent; Italian practice uses protocollo informativo, with the contractual information obligations otherwise carried by the Capitolato Informativo.
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