All though the Subcontract is setup as NEC option B, the subcontractor is still utilising CVI’s and issuing them for any ''additional" works they are carrying out. This is usually issued with the application for payment, and no EW notice or CEQ is issued nor is there a request for CE from the subcontractor.
Do CVI’s exist in NEC? Could these be accepted as EW notices? The CVI’s are written by the subcontractor but have not been verified by the main contractor team. The works have been carried out and they are a change to the works information.
How should these variations be assessed retrospectively?
Thnks
There are no such things as CVI’s under the contract and these pieces of paper are pretty meaningless. The only way that the Subcontractor can claim extra cost is if they can notify an event as a compensation event - and only if it is a valid reason under 60.1.
They should be doing the works as stated in the Works Information - and should only be deviating from that if they have a written instruction from the Contractor. Equally the Contractor should not be giving verbal instructions and expecting the Subcontractor to act on them.
Both Parties should have addressed this a lot earlier and stopped it happening. If any of these events are now considered to be valid compensation events then you will have to try to assess them accordingly looking back at the impact that they would have occurred. This should be when either the instruction was given or the compensation event was notified in terms of actual cost before that point and forecast cost beyond that point.