# NEC ECS: 61.2 Proposed Instruction / Change Decison **URL:** \ **Category:** Compensation Events\ **Created:** [12 September 2018 08:06 UTC](https://reachback.builtintelligence.com/t/nec-ecs-61-2-proposed-instruction-change-decison/4683 "2018-09-12T08:06:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Jon\_Broome](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/reachback.builtintelligence.com/jon_broome/32/192_2.png) [@Jon\_Broome](https://reachback.builtintelligence.com/u/Jon_Broome)\ **Post date:** [12 September 2018 09:39 UTC](https://reachback.builtintelligence.com/t/nec-ecs-61-2-proposed-instruction-change-decison/4683/2 "2018-09-12T09:39:37Z")
You instructed a quotation for a proposed instruction. Having received it, you are not responding to it within the contractual timescales of clause 62.3. Consequently - and this would presumably be reinforced by the detail in the quotation - as a (Sub)contractor, I would argue that any acceptance is out of time and not valid. (Note : in NEC4, the issue of proposed instructions has been significantly tidied up in terms of reducing contractual loose ends - see clause 65) So you start again, either - instructing the works as a change to the Works with the quotation to follow or - instruct a revised quotation for a proposed instruction. --- _[View the full topic](https://reachback.builtintelligence.com/t/nec-ecs-61-2-proposed-instruction-change-decison/4683)._