I have a Client who has issued a PMI to include extra work against a NEC4 contract, the original contract was issued for design and detailing work only and had a maximum value of +/- 20K. The Client has now issued a PMI to include the supply, fabrication and installation which has a value of over 500K, is this a fair way to do this? Keeping in mind that all the dates, penalties etc. in the main contract were relevant only to the design only.
We have raised this as a concern as we believe it would be unfair to impose design only constraints against a full supply and install contract. We have requested a new contract be drawn up so as to properly address our concerns and in a effort to keep the contract terms “clean and relevant” to the supply and install.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.