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The New Engineering Contract (NEC) is a modern day family of standard contracts that truly embraces the concept of partnership and encourages employers, designers, contractors and project managers to work together to achieve the client's objectives. The strategy for choosing the form of contract starts with a decision between four main options, one of which must be choosen.