We're owed money and the contract's remedy is sitting unused
Non-payment has a statutory answer most subcontractors never use, because nobody has drafted it.
What's happening?
When a notified sum goes unpaid past the final date, the Construction Act gives the unpaid party a right most never exercise: suspend some or all of the work, lawfully, after written notice of the intention. The right is designed to be usable - the reasonable costs of the suspension become claimable - and yet it mostly sits unused, so non-payment stays a conversation instead of becoming the payer's problem.
It sits unused for two reasons: nobody is sure of the mechanics, and nobody has a letter ready in the week tempers are up. Both are fixable in advance. The mechanics are exact - the sum must be a notified sum, unpaid, past its final date, and the notice must give the statutory period and say what will be suspended - and getting them wrong turns a remedy into a walk-off argument, which is why suspension sits at the careful end of practice and a solicitor's check before pulling the trigger is often the right spend.
The template is the notice drafted properly in advance; when the clock is already running, the Emergency Notice Desk on the claims side is the fast route.
The solution
The remedy drafted before the week you need it.
If you would rather it were done for you, Emergency Notice Desk is the service that does it.