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Q What does best practice cost audit methodology look like?
Q How much should I spend on cost checking in open-book contracts?
Q We are a consultant engaged under an NEC3 Professional Services Contract (PSC) Option A (priced contract with activity schedule). The employer has requested we undertake a desktop study. This is normally fine but, in this case, the scope requires us to engage a subcontractor to drill some boreholes to obtain data for the desktop study. We are concerned here because the PSC does not allow for the usual compensations events in relation to physical conditions or allow for the recovery of equipment, plant and materials. Is it possible to place an NEC3 ECS for the boreholes and recover this from the employer under a PSC? Also, how would we deal with site-related compensation events?
Q We are a subcontractor on an NEC3 Engineering and Construction Subcontract (ECS), using option B (priced contract with bill of quantities), option W2 and secondary option X16. The final project manager’s payment certificate was dated on 2 April, but we have yet to receive a defects certificate some time later, despite numerous requests. How quickly must the contractor issue us with a defects certificate? What remedies do we have to force release of the defects certificate after our polite requests have failed to elicit any action?
Q What output should I expect from an audit of costs?
Q What is NEC4?
Q Is there a written comparison available between the NEC3 Professional Services Short Contract (PSSC) and the NEC3 Professional Services Contract (PSC), identifying what has been missed out from PSC to create PSSC?
Q I am enquiring as to whether an NEC contract can ever be executed as a contract ‘under hand’, that is as a simple contract? My previous experiences working with NEC contracts have always been when an agreement was made under a deed.
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I am using the Professional Services Contract for the appointment of an Architect on a complex leisure centre project. Do you have any guidance on how I may define the commission?
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In the past we have been guilty of not recording communications with our consultants. Has the NEC produced any guidance on communication under the Professional Services Contract?

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