Revised edition of: Evaluating contract claims / R. Peter Davison and John Mullen. 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Reviews xvii; Preface xxi; Acknowledgements xxvii; 1 Introduction; 1; 1.1 The Legal Basis 2; 1.1.1 Forms of Contract 2; 1.2 The Standard of Substantiation 4; 1.2.1 SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol 5; 1.2.2 Direct and Time Consequences 7; 1.2.3 Duty to Mitigate 9; 1.3 Risks 12; 1.3.1 Design Risks 12; 1.3.2 Design Review 14; 1.3.3 Professional Indemnity Insurance 14; 1.3.4 Risk Analysis and Management 14; 1.3.5 Risk Registers 16; 1.3.6 Risks and Records 17; 1.3.7 Reimbursable Risks 20; 1.3.8 Non-reimbursable Risks 21; 1.4 Sources of Change 22; 1.4.1 The Process of Analysis 22; 1.4.2 Inadequate Pre-contract Design and Documentation 23; 1.4.3 Design Development and Approval 26; 1.4.4 Access or Possession 27; 1.4.5 Early Taking over or Beneficial Use 28; 1.4.6 Changes in Employer Requirements 28; 1.4.7 Contract Documents 29; 1.4.8 Unforeseeable Occurrences 30; 1.4.9 Breach of Contract 31; 1.5 Summary 32; 2 Establishing the Base; 33; 2.1 Planned Change 34; 2.1.1 Ordered Variations 36; 2.1.1.1 Fair Rates and Prices 39; 2.1.2 Changes in Quantities 41; 2.1.2.1 Quantities and Conditions 43; 2.1.3 Preferential Engineering 44; 2.1.4 Value Engineering 45; 2.1.5 Unconfirmed Instructions 46; 2.2 Unplanned Change 47; 2.3 Programmes and Method Statements 47; 2.3.1 The Status of Programmes 47; 2.3.2 Programmes and Resources 52; 2.3.2.1 Method Statements 52; 2.3.3 The SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol 54; 2.3.4 A Partial Programme 55; 2.3.5 Limitations on Liability 55; 2.4 Summary 56; 3 Effect of Change on Programmes of Work; 57; 3.1 Use of Programmes 58; 3.1.1 Provisional Sums in Programmes 60; 3.1.2 The Base Cost 63; 3.2 Use of As-Built Programmes 64; 3.2.1 Sources of Information for As-Built Programmes 65; 3.2.2 Constant Resource/Continuous Working 66; 3.2.3 Recording of Completion 67; 3.3 Change Without Overall Prolongation 67; 3.3.1 Who Owns the Float? 68; 3.4 Prolongation of the Works 74; 3.5 Analysis of Time and Delay 77; 3.5.1 Introduction 77; 3.5.2 Basic Requirements 82; 3.5.3 Float and Acceleration 86; 3.5.4 Concurrent Delays 88; 3.5.5 'Dot on' 98; 3.5.6 Concurrency and the Contractor's Financial Claims 100; 3.5.7 Delay Analysis Techniques 103; 3.5.7.1 Impacted as Planned 104; 3.5.7.2 Time Impact Analysis 108; 3.5.7.3 Collapsed As-Built Analysis 111; 3.5.7.4 As-Planned Versus As-Built Programmes 113; 3.5.7.5 Windows Analysis 115; 3.5.7.6 Software 116; 3.5.7.7 Building Information Modelling 118; 3.5.7.8 Case Law 120; 3.5.7.9 Conclusions 123; 3.5.8 Assessment of Productivity 125; 3.5.8.1 Tender Productivity 126; 3.5.8.2 Achievable Productivity 127; 3.5.8.3 Actual Productivity After a Change 127; 3.5.9 Sources of Productivity Data 128; 3.5.9.1 The Fundamental Principles 128; 3.5.9.2 Relevant Quantities 128; 3.5.9.3 Equipment and Methods 129; 3.5.9.4 Sustainable Outputs 130; 3.5.9.5 Recalculation Using Efficiency Factors 130; 3.5.10 Effect on Contractor's Plant and Equipment 131; 3.5.10.1 Working Plant and Equipment 132; 3.5.10.2 Site Facilities and Equipment 133; 3.5.11 Duty to Mitigate 134; 3.6 Summary 135; 4 Sources of Financial Information for Evaluation; 137; 4.1 The Contract Provisions 139; 4.1.1 Cost 139; 4.1.2 Loss and Expense 141; 4.1.3 To Ascertain 142; 4.2 Tender Documents and Information 145; 4.2.1 Entire Agreements 146; 4.2.2 Misstatements and Misrepresentation 147; 4.2.3 Mistakes in Tenders 148; 4.2.4 The Conditions for, and Character of, the Works 149; 4.3 Tender Calculations and Assumptions 149; 4.4 Cost Records 151; 4.4.1 Identification of Invoices 151; 4.4.2 Discounts and Credit Notes 152; 4.4.3 Bulk Discounts 153; 4.4.4 Coding Systems 154; 4.4.5 Timing of Costs 154; 4.4.6 Cost Transfers and Accruals 155; 4.4.7 Final Accounts and Economic Duress 156; 4.5 Accounting Information 158; 4.5.1 Financial Accounts 158; 4.5.2 Management Accounts 159; 4.5.3 Exceptional Items 161; 4.6 External Information 161; 4.7 Summary 162; 5 Evaluation of the Direct Consequences of Change 165; 5.1 Unit Rates and Prices or Actual Costs? 166; 5.2 Unit Rates and Prices 167; 5.2.1 The FIDIC Forms of Contract 172; 5.2.2 Measurement of Work 173; 5.2.3 Design and Build/Schedule of Rates 175; 5.2.4 Status of Contract Rates and Prices 176; 5.2.5 Errors in Rates and Prices 177; 5.3 The Valuation 'Fences' 184; 5.3.1 The 'Fences' 185; 5.3.2 'Conditions' and 'Character' 185; 5.3.2.1 Change in Conditions 187; 5.3.2.2 Change in Character 188; 5.3.3 New Rates 189; 5.3.4 Valuation of Variations in Quantity 190; 5.3.5 Effect of Variations on Other Work 196; 5.4 Inclusion of Preliminaries and General Items 197; 5.5 Percentage Adjustments 200; 5.5.1 Percentages in Variation Valuation 200; 5.5.2 Threshold Percentages 201; 5.5.2.1 Criteria for Judging Change in the Amount of Work 202; 5.5.2.2 Which Rates are to Be Amended? 203; 5.5.2.3 What Rules Apply? 203; 5.5.3 Percentages for Defective or Incomplete Work, etc. 204; 5.5.4 Percentage Caps on Adjustments 205; 5.6 Valuation Using Day work Provisions 205; 5.7 Use of Actual Costs 210; 5.7.1 The NEC Suite of Contracts -- Introduction 211; 5.7.2 The NEC Suite of Contracts -- Forecast or Actual Cost? 213; 5.7.3 The NEC Suite of Contracts -- Defined Cost 218; 5.7.4 The NEC Suite of Contracts -- Disallowed Cost 221; 5.7.5 The NEC Suite of Contracts -The Fee and Other Agreed Rates 223; 5.7.6 The NEC Suite of Contracts -- Objectives 224; 5.8 Unit Costs 225; 5.8.1 Labour Costs 229; 5.8.1.1 Gang Rates 229; 5.8.1.2 Supervision 230; 5.8.2 Use of Norms in Evaluation 231; 5.8.3 Plant and Equipment Costs 234; 5.8.3.1 Plant and Equipment Cost Rates 235; 5.8.3.2 External Hire Charges 240; 5.8.4 Materials Costs 241; 5.8.5 Overheads and Profit 243; 5.9 Subcontractor and Supplier Costs 245; 5.9.1 Subcontractors 246; 5.9.1.1 Nominated or Named Subcontractors 246; 5.9.1.2 Domestic Subcontractors 249; 5.9.2 Package Equipment Suppliers 250; 5.9.2.1 Example of Change Calculation for Package Equipment 252; 5.10 Valuation of Omissions 253; 5.11 Add and Omit Variations 254; 5.12 Quantum Meruit 257; 5.12.1 No Contract or Agreement as to Price 258; 5.12.2 Contract Only Says Reasonable Sum 259; 5.12.3 Work Outside of Contract 259; 5.12.4 Cardinal Change 260; 5.12.5 How to Calculate 263; 5.13 Valuation in Advance 265; 5.14 Requirements for Notices 269; 5.14.1 Notice in Relation to Unit Rates 270; 5.14.2 Notice in Relation to a Quotation or Proposal 273; 5.14.3 Notice as a Condition Precedent and Other Sanctions 275; 5.14.4 Further Considerations 277; 5.15 Summary 278; 6 Evaluation of the Time Consequences of Change; 279; 7 Termination Claims 513; 8 Other Sources of Claims 557; 9 Minimising the Consequences of Change 633; Appendix A Example of Financial Accounts 655; Appendix B Example of Management Accounts 657.

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