Log the event when the notice arrives

Open Extensions of Time and add an event.
Name the relevant event from the clause 2.29 list. Do it now, while the correspondence is fresh.
Enter the date notice was received and the date particulars were received.
Enter the weeks claimed.

Worth knowingThe assessment clock runs from the particulars, not from the notice. A contractor who gives notice and never provides particulars has not started your clock.

Time and money are separate

A relevant event under clause 2.29 can carry an extension of time. A relevant matter under clause 4.21 can carry loss and expense. The lists overlap heavily and they are not the same.

QScope warns you when loss and expense is claimed against an event that cannot carry it. Exceptionally adverse weather is the clearest case: it is a relevant event and not a relevant matter, so it buys relief from damages and nothing else.

Record the assessment, not just the answer

Enter the weeks awarded and the award date.
Set the status to Awarded.
Write the reasoning in the assessment field: which event, which period, what was on the critical path, what was allowed and what was not.

Worth knowingOnly events marked as awarded move the revised completion date. A claim that has been notified but not decided extends nothing, and the original date stands until you decide.

What an award changes

The revised completion date moves. Liquidated damages then run from the new date, not the old one.

Any certificate of non-completion issued against the old date is cancelled and has to be reissued. QScope flags the damages calculation until it is.

Still stuck?

Write to support@qscope.co.uk. Include the project reference and, if it is about a figure, the certificate number. Answers within one working day.

Completion and certificatesWhere damages are calculated. Loss and expenseThe money side, assessed separately. Schedule of defectsAfter completion.

Recording and assessing extensions of time