It sounds an entirely reasonable strategy for dealing with a backlog, it won't go away on it's own and if the existing resource is struggling to stay on top of them the Contractor is at risk of the PM making an assessment of the cost and time which is not a position most Contractors would want to put themselves in. Its the new QS's job to ascertain the facts and circumstances surrounding each event and to take these into account when producing the CE quotation.
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