EOT for additional work; Instruction issued after original project completion date

Hi Muhammad,

My answer to the question,

A) How many days/months EOT should be entitled to the Contractor?

          -first you need identify the caused of delay,that is to review the contracts,go back to the previous documents.

          and most important is the approved schedule,the baselineschedule,that is where you will compare what just happen.

B) What will be compensable and non-compensable delay?             

            -Compensable delay is caused by the acts of God and Owners fault Delay.

            -Non compensable usually is cause by the Contractor.

D) LDs can be imposed on the Contractor or otherwise?

             -Yes,but only if it is contractors delay.

Endralie G. Halog

I concur with Anders - under most contracts, the EOT entitlement is the period of the delay.  If the delay occued 6 weeks after the dat of completion but only delayd the work by 5 days, the EOT is the 5 days  of delay; penalties apply for the balance of the time.  To understand a bit more, there are a coulpe of free papers at: http://www.mosaicprojects.com.au/Planning.html#Delay 

Muhammed,

Mike is incorrect. There is no concurrent delay. The three delays you mention all occur at different times - May 13, Jul 13 and Jan 14. So concurrency is not an issue. Just make sure you measure the effects of the May 13 and Jan 14 delays in isolation from anything else in the schedule to determine the effect on the project duration.

For most contracts (including probably yours) an event that occurs after original completion gets treated the same way as those that occur before original completion.

Regards

Anders Axelson.

Hi Muhammad

You have a classic concurrent delay situation which will take a bit of unravelling on the bar chart.

In England there is no clear cut ruling on concurrent delay except that:

1. The contractor is entitled to an EoT for all delays caused by the Employer.

2. The contractor cannot claim costs for delays that he has caused.

3. Direct cause and effect must be demonstrated for each delay impact.

In other parts of the world they are moving towards a more sensible system of apportionment of costs.

There is a full chapter on concurrency in my ebook Principles of Delay Analysis which you can download from

www.expertdelayanalysis.com

Price £25.00

Best regards

Mike Testro