In the construction of the Berlin Brandenburg Airport in Germany, lack of governance and complex contractor agreements have led to a cost increase from the originally estimated EUR 2.0 billion to approximately EUR 7.3 billion, delaying the planned opening of the airport for several years, while triggering hefty contractual fines (Fiedler and Wendler, 2015, Jarvis, 2018). Another example is the expansion of the Panama Canal and its cost overruns and delayed completion, which has also partly been attributed to its interrelated and multiple contracts (Robertson et al., In Vietnam, the government and developing partners have focused efforts specifically on improving contract management of civil work contracts and related processes and systems in order to enable development that is more effective (Tran and Nguyen, 2015).