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Answered: NEC ECC: Option C - Disallowed Costs

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The Schedule of Cost Components does not apply because, as you say, the surveyor is a Subcontractor and therefore you are reimbursed in accordance with that subcontract - see option C clauses 11.2 (23) for the definition of Defined Cost and its first main bullet.

The PM would need to find a reason to disallow it under clause 11.2 (25) for Disallowed Cost. However, before your Project Manager does that, it is perhaps worthwhile reminding him or her that as the judge said in the first bit of case law on NEC (Costain v Bechtel) :
"I am unable to find anything which militates against the existence of a duty upon the project manager to act impartially in matters of assessment and certification [and more generally] when the project manager comes to exercise his discretion in those residual areas [of subjectivity in the NEC] . . . it would be a most unusual basis for any building contract to postulate that every doubt shall be resolved in favour of the employer and every discretion shall be exercised against the contractor."

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