NEC ECC: How do I have to show a parallel impact on the programme because of...
How do I have to show a parallel impact on the programme because of two Compensation events? First Scenario: CE 1: asbestos found (CE is accepted by employer), with impact on the critical path CE 2:...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: ...and if the PM does not concur a notified event is...
Yes contractually - but worthy of having a discussion explaining why they do not consider it so.
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: Capturing prelims with CEs in an option C contract
Yes it is appropriate - and again an example of why it is essential for a Contractor to demonstrate both "planned Completion" and "Completion Date" on a programme. If the Contractor was performing well...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: How do I have to show a parallel impact on the programme...
Most compensation events are a forecast (see the second part of 63.1). Therefore you assess the effects of CE01 upon planned Completion, and that is how much Completion Date should move by. Then you...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: How to assess CE amount for inflation before completion?
I assume you are asking how an inflation allowance is included within a CE quotation. This would relate to the forecast Defined Cost, as any incurred actual Defined Cost should be established. It...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECS: Assessing a compensation event
The published version of the Schedule and Shorter Schedules of Cost Components only requires rates for categories of employee carrying out design and manufacture and fabrication outside Working Areas,...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: Zclauses - additional conditions of contract selection
Z clauses are changes that a Client feels are necessary to make the NEC contract they have chosen fit their bespoke requirements. NEC4 makes some enhancements and corrections to NEC3 so by the nature...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: Continually Delayed Start Date
If the postponed start date is not notified and the Employer simply fails to provide access then this would be a compensation event under clause 60.1 (2). If this situation continues then notify an...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECS: Delay Damages negotiable, capped or fixed?
Firstly you are slightly confused here talking about Employer/Subcontractor. I assume you mean the Contractor rather than the Employer in the wording of this question. The answer is that if the...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: Client rejects CE but Contractor still believes valid
Three options: 1. re-notify it is a CE giving better/clearer reasons/demonstration why it definitely is a compensation event and see if they agree, and if still no go either to point 2 or 3 below 2....
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: Partial Site Access Entitlement
What ever your programme demonstrates! You show the effect of no work for the first week and its impact, and then the effect of partial impact the second week and its impact. The overall effect on...
View ArticleFidic red book and NEC3
Comparison between fidic red book & NEC3 in terms of payment,program, and Disputes - can you give me a global summary of differences?
View ArticleNEC ECC: Contractor design liability for Client appointed designer under the...
If the Client appoints a designer contracted to that Client, how does that affect the Contractor's liability for the design? The Scope states the Contractor shall co-ordinate and integrate the work of...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: Assessment of Compensation Event - Defined Costs –...
It doesn't really matter what the Contractor claiming - it is about what the contract says. The fact they took so long to do the quote does not change the wording of 63.1 that states that the quotation...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: Option A Sectional Completion CE
You can claim under the CE for he effect that the CE will have on your project - nothing more and nothing less. If there are specific prelim type costs that will be incurred additionally due to the...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC3 ECC: Option A- Rights to costs for increased costs due to...
The first thing you need to ascertain is who is responsible for the design. From your question it appears that the Employer has provided an indicative design suggesting that you are responsible for the...
View ArticleAnswered: NEC ECC: Contractor design liability for Client appointed designer...
This requirement in the Scope is very general, but is still a requirement all the same. In terms of liability, it depends upon what design obligations you have under the contract and who has been...
View ArticleNEC ECS - Company taken over during contract period
Is the subcontract still valid if the company is taken over by another during the contract period? Does the original contract and its terms and conditions still hold when it comes to a potential...
View ArticleNEC ECS: contra charges
Under an ECS Option C subcontract, the main contractor applies contra charges to the payment application. A portion of the contra charges relate to de-scoped work and others relate to works instructed...
View ArticleNEC ECC: Option A - People Overheads
We have had a quotation for people and it includes their cars used to travel to site. Would this normally be built in to the People Overheads? I've looked through the green and brown book and this...
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