Compensation Event Management & Strategy

The CE Process, Run Properly

Under NEC, compensation events are the only route to additional time and money. The process is procedural and unforgiving: events must be identified, notified within time-bars, quoted on a defined cost basis with programme impact demonstrated, and assessed correctly. Projjex manages this end to end, and has implemented over £4.6m of compensation events including successfully challenging previously rejected and under-assessed events.

What We Manage

• Compensation event identification and heads of claim analysis
• Notification requirements, procedural compliance and time-bar avoidance
• Quotation development - defined cost, people/equipment/plant rates, risk allowances
• Programme impact demonstration and alternative quotation strategy
• Assessment procedures, deemed acceptance provisions and acceptance/rejection grounds
• Project Manager assessment obligations and assumptions register management
• Review, challenge and re-presentation of previously rejected compensation events

Time-Bars Are Where Money Is Lost

The most common and most avoidable loss of entitlement under NEC is the missed notification. Events that would have been worth significant time and money are lost simply because they were not notified in time. Projjex builds the discipline and the systems - including CEMAR administration - that catch events early and notify them correctly, protecting entitlement before it expires.

Defined Cost & Quotation Strategy

A compensation event quotation must be built on defined cost and demonstrate programme effect - not simply re-rate the tender. We develop quotations from first principles, with the people, equipment and plant build-up, risk allowance and programme impact that make them robust. Where the Project Manager makes an assessment, we ensure it reflects proper entitlement rather than an under-valuation.