When the Project Manager (Client) accepts a project programme submission what are they accepting in terms of dates? If the submission states Planned Dates that are later then the Contract Dates is the client agreeing to new Contract Dates?
What is the client accepting?
Can the client not accept if the Contract Dates are not being met?
This is a recurring situation that I come across with some on one side of the argument and some on the other. Clarification would help.
By accepting the cl 32 programme the PM is not accepting “new contract Dates”. Key dates and Completion Date(s) are adjusted, (mainly, by the compensation event process which is a separate process to programme submission and acceptance.
The PM should not be not accepting on the basis that planned dates have moved beyond the “Contract Dates”.
Contract obligates that a Contractor shows a planned Completion milestone and a Completion Date milestone. If a Contractor is showing planned Completion beyond Completion Date, it means they are running late. This could be down to themselves and their liability, or if it has moved due to the effects of a compensation event then once implemented that could yet move Completion Date.
There are four reasons the PM can reject a programme for under clause 31.3 but planned Completion being later than Completion Date is NOT a reason to reject the programme.
By a Project Manager accepting a programme with planned Completion beyond Completion Date, they are not accepting liability at that stage. The compensation event process once concluded by it being “implemented” is the only way of moving the Completion date.