Once Unpaid Variation Prevention is set up, who confirms the instructions on our job, you or us?
You do: your people confirm each instruction and register each change themselves, in your name and on your systems.
Updated: . By Jack Butler-Kettle, Construction Claims Consultant.
The answer
We start by mapping how changes work under your subcontract onto one page. It shows who may instruct and how, the confirmation route and its time limit, any notice a variation needs, and the valuation rules. Around that we build the routine. It has a list of the people whose instructions count, a confirmation template and a register. Each variation gets its own file and cost code, and the register is reconciled to your application every month. We fit all of it to how your people already work. During the live month we are on hand to answer questions as they come up. At the end of it we check the month against the subcontract and fix whatever did not work. Then we take the people who will run the routine through the corrected version. After handover, you can keep us on the Ongoing monthly check at a fixed fee each month. We sample the month's directions, trace each one to a confirmation and a register line, and reconcile the register to your application. Then we report in writing what is drifting while it can still be put right. It pauses between jobs and stops whenever you choose.
Example
Illustrative example. The scenario and figures are invented.
The facts
A mechanical subcontractor with three live jobs wants its site managers, not its office, to confirm instructions. The routine is built around the confirmation route its subcontracts name.
What happens
- During the live month, each site manager issues confirmations in the company's name and updates the register the same day.
- The check at the end of the month traces nineteen directions: seventeen were confirmed and registered.
- Two turn up in a site diary with no confirmation, both still inside their period, and are confirmed that week.
- The commercial manager keeps the Ongoing monthly check on the largest job and lets the other two run on their own.
The outcome
The site managers run the routine on all three jobs, and the monthly check samples only the job where the most change arrives.
To have the confirmation and register routine set up for your team to run, see our Unpaid Variation Prevention service.