My variations aren't being paid? Every question we answer on it, grouped by subject.
A variation order is your main contractor's written instruction to change your work, and most changes to your scope or conditions count.
Sometimes, but it is much harder without a written variation instruction, so confirm every verbal direction in writing as soon as you get it.
It does if it changes your work and comes from someone your subcontract allows to instruct, whatever the form calls it.
Not if it only fills in detail your subcontract already allowed for, but a revision that changes what you agreed to build can be.
Only by agreement, because without a variation clause neither side can order a change on its own.
Sometimes, but neither refusing nor carrying on under protest is automatically safe, so check the instruction and your subcontract first.
By the valuation rules in your subcontract, which usually start from your contract rates and move on to adjusted rates, fair rates or daywork.
By agreement, by an accepted quotation, or under the Valuation Rules, which start from your subcontract rates and move to fair rates or daywork.
A provisional sum is an allowance for work not fully described at tender, and the work is usually valued like a variation once instructed.
Dayworks value work by the hours and materials used, and are paid where your subcontract allows them and the sheets were signed at the time.
The ones your subcontract names: building work usually uses the RICS prime cost definitions, and civil engineering work the CECA schedules.
Only if your subcontract allows it, so check what its omission power permits and what work is really being removed or handed on.
It should name the instruction, say what changed, show the value and its build-up, and ask for a reply by a set date.
Yes, under some subcontracts, so check the notice rules in yours as soon as a change comes up.
Rebuild each disputed variation from its instruction, valuation, payments and any agreements, item by item, before you decide how to respond.
Section 5 of SBC/Q 2016 says what a Variation is and how it is valued: by agreement, by quotation, or from the bill rates outwards.
Clause 3.14 of SBC/Q 2016 lets the Architect/Contract Administrator instruct a Variation, which the Contractor carries out, with only a narrow right to object.
You do: your people confirm each instruction and register each change themselves, in your name and on your systems.
We rate each one on its evidence before valuing anything, and prepare a confirmation for you to issue now on any still in its period.