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A few assignments handled and the situations that recur most often. Details remain confidential: we keep the situation, what was done, and what it changed.
contract review, clause-by-clause positioning, costing of each deviation.
€2.4m of substantiated difference between the proposed position and the position actually open to negotiation.
review of both contracts, deviation list, costing of the organisation, technical submission.
a response dossier coordinated between the consortium members.
comparison of unit times against 270 observations and 19 independent sources.
task-by-task comparison of both revisions.
76 working days of drift, invisible without this comparison.
Until the process is fixed, every change ripples through structure, foundations and access, and ends up as variations and claims on site.
What we do: a costed comparison of the options in cost, time and risk, a recommendation, then process and building interface sheets before contractors are consulted.
See interventions stage by stage →The contractor carries a design risk it does not control.
What we do: identify the clauses to neutralise, or propose the appropriate form of contract.
That is exactly where the risk concentrates.
What we do: an interface matrix, and allocation of each interface in the contracts.
Once the deadline passes, the claim may be lost, whatever its merits.
What we do: a register of contractual deadlines from signature, and the monitoring that goes with it.
They are delivered, rarely paid for.
What we do: formalise and cost before delivery.
Without a dated baseline, the delay remains an opinion.
What we do: reconstruct the chronology from dated records, and derive the analysis of causes.