Use this form to create and maintain contract change orders.

A contract change order (CCO) is an official amendment document for a change in scope to a customer/owner contract and it is a collection of approved change orders.

CCOs are very similar to change order requests (CORs), but a CCO is a grouping of approved change orders rather than a grouping of pending/potential change orders.

For more information about change orders requests, see About the PM Change Order Requests Form.

Contract change orders are processed using the following basic steps:

When working with contract change orders in this form, you can:

• Add multiple ACOs to a CCO - Select Tasks > Add ACOs to select multiple ACOs and then add them to a contract change order. The PCOs added to the CCO are automatically related using the Related Items feature.
  Note: Adding the ACO to the CCO changes the status of the ACO from "Approved" to "Pending." You can view the status of an ACO using Info tab in the upper portion of PM Approved Change Orders . When an ACO has a pending status, it cannot be interfaced with the accounting modules using PM Interface. When the CCO is approved using the Approve button at the bottom of the form, the status of the ACO will change back to "Approved" and you will be able to interface the ACOs.
• Approve a CCO - Select the Approve button at the bottom of the form to approve a contract change order. Approving a contract change order means that the ACOs on the CCO can now be interfaced using the PM Interface form. In addition, when you approve a CCO, it changes the status of the ACOs on the CCO. For more information, see About the PM Approved Change Orders Form.
• Unapprove a CCO - Select the Unapprove button at the bottom of the form to unapprove a contract change order. Unapproving a CCO means that the ACOs should not be interfaced with the accounting modules. It also changes the status of the ACOs on the CCO.
• Link associated items - You can use the Related Items feature to link associated items to a project. For example, you might link a project issue with the RFIs, meetings, PCOs, and other documents and records that relate to the issue. For more information, see About Related Items.
• Distribution Audit () / Distribution () - Use the Distribution options to view documents generated using Create and Send, view and/or resend communications, set up distribution defaults, and/or create distribution groups.
• Create related items - You can use the Create Related option () to create a new record using the information on the currently selected record. The new record will be associated with the current record using the Related Item feature and, to reduce data entry, some of the fields on the new record will default based on the currently selected record.

For an overview of changes orders, see Change Management - Overview.