Our subcontract was terminated this week. What do you need from us first?
Tell us on the first call that the termination is recent, so the works, materials and plant are recorded before the completion contractor changes them.
Updated: . By Jack Butler-Kettle, Construction Claims Consultant.
The answer
The completion contractor is the firm brought in to finish your work, and the evidence of what you left starts to disappear the day it arrives. Your work is valued to the termination date, and that value only holds up if it traces to what the records show was there. Then send everything else in one go. That means the signed subcontract with all schedules and amendments, and the default notices and termination letter, with any record of how and when they arrived. Add the full run of applications, notices and payments to the termination date. Add your diaries, photos, measures, marked-up drawings and delivery records as you keep them, with anything recorded on the termination day. The completion cost details and any account from your main contractor usually come with its claim; if they do not, we ask for them. Before we build any figure, we confirm the clause your main contractor relied on, the termination date and the account rules from the signed subcontract.
Example
Illustrative example. The scenario and figures are invented.
The facts
A cladding subcontractor's subcontract is terminated on a Wednesday, and it comes to us on the Thursday.
What happens
- On the first call the termination is flagged as recent. The works, the stored panels and the plant left on site are recorded before the completion contractor starts.
- The subcontract, the termination letter, the payment history and the site records follow in one go.
- The clause the main contractor relied on, the termination date and the account rules are confirmed from the signed subcontract.
The outcome
The record of the day is on file before the completion contractor changes anything, and every figure in the account is built from it.
To have the works recorded and the termination account built and pursued, see our Termination Claim service.