Variations

= the change that became money: the same £1,032.40 carried from instruction to application on four documents. Break the trail at any of them and the work is still done and the cost still spent, but the money usually stays where it is.

Hover or tap any document in the trail for why it matters. A change only becomes money if the paper survives all four steps, and the leak under each document is where variations are usually lost.

One change followed along its paper trail: the four documents that turn an instruction into money, and the leak under each.

Problems

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Compensation events are drifting on my NEC job

Events are happening faster than the notifications, and I know the eight-week bar is in the contract somewhere.

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The change is being valued at rates that don't fit

The variation is agreed, but they've priced it with rates that are nowhere near what the work actually involved.

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I'm being told the change is included in my scope

I priced one thing, I'm being made to build another, and the answer keeps coming back that it's all design development.

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I've been told to speed up, at my own cost

The programme has slipped, the pressure is on, and I'm being pushed to accelerate without anyone agreeing to pay for it.

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I can't get on with the work

Information arrives late, areas aren't ready when promised, and my programme is being eaten by things I don't control.

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I'm doing changed work on a say-so

Changes keep arriving by phone call and site conversation, and almost none of it is in writing.

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I need to confirm a verbal instruction today

It was said on site this morning, the work starts tomorrow, and it has to be in writing before it isn't.

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The register is empty and the job is half built

Nobody can say what has been instructed, what has been priced and what has been agreed.

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The eight-week bar is running and we're not tracking it

Compensation events keep happening and nothing counts the days against each one.

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Their application contains changes we never instructed

Work has appeared in the valuation with no instruction behind it, and we have nothing to refute it with.

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The early warnings should have been raised and weren't

The contract wanted them, the register is empty, and the events happened anyway.

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Services

CVI & Instruction Review

Risk mitigationFixed FeeFor Subcontractors5 working days

I sweep your correspondence and site records for instructions that never made it onto paper, confirm what can still be confirmed while the periods are open, and value what stands.

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NEC Compensation Event Review

ForensicFixed FeeFor Subcontractors & Main Contractors10 working days

I test a compensation event quotation against your contract's own rules: the clause 61.3 notification position first, then the quotation component by component against the Schedule of Cost Components.

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Variation Valuation Dispute

RemedialHourlyFor Subcontractors, Main Contractors & Clients

Where the sum is disputed, I argue which valuation basis the contract requires, whether contract rates, pro-rata, star rates or dayworks, and build your case on your own figures.

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Acceleration Cost Quantum

RemedialHourlyFor Subcontractors & Main Contractors

I price what acceleration actually cost from your records, so the claim is a premium built measure by measure rather than a round number.

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Fluctuations & Price Escalation Claims

RemedialHourlyFor Subcontractors & Main Contractors

I operate your contract's fluctuations machinery exactly as written, computing the adjustment period by period from records, whether that is building your claim or checking one you have received.

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