Turn a change into a paid variation
Capture a scope change while it is fresh, price it as a contract variation on your agreed r…
贯穿平台的 6 个步骤 - 每一步做什么,以及为什么重要。
把事件记录在往来信函中,并在同一周内发出通知,注明事件及其日期。你还不需要成本,等待成本正是通知延误最常见的原因。
原因: 美国的合同把权利与通知挂钩,而不只是与付款挂钩。私人工程中广泛使用的通用条款自知悉事件起给二十一天,联邦合同中的变更条款则根据版本给二十天或三十天。一旦错过,本该获得付款的索赔可能只因日期而消失。
生成一份变更指令,把它写成一种差异:合同文件原来要求什么,现在改为要求什么,以及是哪项指令、修订图纸或现场状况导致了它。把描述限定在变更本身,把定价留给下一步。
原因: 单独描述的变更读起来像是在要求额外的钱。同一个变更如果被描述为偏离某个具名范围项,读起来就像是在陈述事实,争论也会从这是不是一项变更转移到它值多少钱。全部诀窍就在这里。
把受影响日期的施工日志记录连同指令、修订图纸和照片拉进证据包,然后记录缺了什么,以便现在就能收集,而不是以后再去追查。
原因: The gap you find today is one somebody can still fill. The same gap found during the final account is a hole in your case, and the only person who could have closed it left the job in the spring.
把成本拆分成人工、材料、设备、分包工作以及因变更产生的任何额外监理的独立行,然后适用合同规定的管理费和利润百分比,而不是一个凑整的数字。
原因: 笼统的总额会招来同样笼统的还价。明细只能被逐行质疑,而大多数行不值得质疑,所以谈判会收窄到真正值得争的一两行。在合同允许业主在价格谈定之前指示施工的地方,这份明细同时也成为最终结算时衡量的依据。
把变更推进到签署为止的各个阶段,并在与金额相同的文件中处理工期影响:要么以一致同意的延期处理,要么在延误尚无法评估的地方明确保留。
原因: 一份解决了成本但对工期只字不提的变更指令,日后往往会被解读为两者都已解决。如果工期影响尚不明确,在文件中说明这一点,正是让这个问题保持开放的方式。
让已签署的变更指令修订合同金额,使下一次付款申请把它们作为独立行计费,每一项都附上截至该日期已完成的工作,而不是消失在原始范围行里。
原因: 被埋在原始行里的变更,是你不得不每个月都要为之辩护直到项目结束的变更。若作为独立行计费,对应它自己那份已签署的变更指令,它只需被批准一次,就不会再回来。
190 个平台模块中的 5 个
Everything in this case follows how construction work is measured, priced and paid for in this market. The forms, the cost breakdown and the payment rules are the ones used there, not a generic version of them.
Standards it follows
You do not have to set any of that up by hand. The first time you open the platform it asks which market you work in. Choose this one and it sets the interface language, loads the matching cost database and records the cost classification, and it adds an example project you can open straight away.
The rule checks for this market come with the platform too. Switch them on once and an estimate that misses something the market expects is flagged while you are still working on it, not after the tender has gone out.
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