NEC4 Option C. The contractor has not provided quotation within the timescales required. The PM has consequently made their own assessment. The Contractor states they disagree with these assessments and will dispute them. These PMAs were implemented over six months ago, but the contract has more than two years left to run. Two questions, 1) Can the Contractor wait years to formally raise these as disputed? 2) On what grounds could a dispute against these PMAs be upheld?
Otherwise the client/PM is in the position of having hundreds of thousands of pounds of compensation items still open and unagreed as the contract progresses, therefore providing no certainty on the forecast of the contract’s total of prices and associated pain/gain share calculations.