Problems for Contracts, Quantity Surveying

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I'm about to sign and the amendments are unread

A standard form "with amendments" and nobody has listed what they change.

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There's a contract in front of me, unsigned

The document has arrived, the job is real, and I'm being pressed to sign something I haven't fully read.

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I'm being asked to start on a letter of intent

The contract isn't agreed, the programme won't wait, and a letter of intent is on the table.

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I'm about to sign and the payment terms worry me

The subcontract is on the table and something about the payment clauses doesn't sit right.

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I'm negotiating blind

I know some clauses matter more than others; I don't know which ones are worth the fight.

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I know what's wrong and they won't accept my changes

I've pushed back on the worst clauses and the other side keeps returning the same draft.

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The risk I take on has to go down the chain

My subcontracts should mirror what I've signed up to, and they don't.

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We're about to sign and nobody can summarise it

Five hundred pages, and no one page that says what the dates, the notices and the deductions actually are.

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The amendments have stretched our payment terms and nobody flagged it

A standard form with the final date pushed out and the notice windows shortened, agreed because nobody read that far.

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The contract says nothing about when we get paid

Where the terms are silent the Act fills the gap, and the dates we have been working to are not the dates we are bound by.

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Nobody has read the defined terms

A capitalised word means whatever that section says it means, and one redefined term changes how a clause you thought you understood actually works.

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We agreed the job in a message thread and the paperwork never followed

Price, scope and payment settled on a phone is a contract. It is just not one anybody can administer.

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We carry the design liability for a design we weren't allowed to make

Design and build, with a specification that dictates every detail and leaves the risk with us.

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The payment clause is lawful and behaves like pay-when-paid

It never says the words, and the money still does not move until somebody upstream has been paid.

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Their set-off clause reaches into our other contracts

A deduction earned on one job can land on this one, and we signed it.

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Our subcontracts don't say how an application has to reach us

No form, no route, no named recipient, so anything that turns up has to be treated as an application.

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It's a bespoke contract and we're running it like a JCT

Two hundred pages that look familiar, administered on habit, until the day somebody actually needs the clause.

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