Intelligence
Practitioner intelligence on UK NEC contracts.
Clause-level writing on compensation events, contract options, programme risk, disputes and recovery, methodology, and the markets that shape UK infrastructure delivery. The raw material that feeds the NEC Commercial Risk Monitor. Independent. Anonymous by design.
4 pieces published · weekly cadence
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Compensation Events
NEC Compensation Events: a practitioner guide to notification, quotation and assessment
Most NEC compensation events fail not because the law is hard, but because the discipline is. Here is what the clauses say, where the work breaks down, and what good looks like, written from live UK NEC contract administration.
· 9 min read
Programme Risk
NEC Early Warning vs Compensation Event: when one becomes the other
Most teams treat early warnings and compensation events as separate processes. The contract treats them as one register with different obligations attached. Get the judgement wrong and you either spam EWs that should have been CEs, or sit on CEs that should have been notified weeks earlier.
· 8 min read
Contract Options
NEC Option A vs Option C: where the misapplication trap lives
Option A is not a fixed price. Option C is not cost reimbursable. The two most-used NEC Options on UK infrastructure are also the two most-misapplied. The misapplication is rarely caught at procurement. It surfaces in the numbers, six months in.
· 9 min read
Editorial themes
Six lenses on UK NEC and infrastructure practice.
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Compensation Events
Assessment, narrative writing, common failure modes, time bars.
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Contract Options
A vs B vs C vs E, when each is misapplied, target-cost mechanics.
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Programme Risk
Early warnings, risk registers, programme acceleration, float ownership.
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Disputes & Recovery
Adjudication, claim narrative, when things go wrong.
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Methodology
How the Benchmark is built, anonymisation, why this evidence base matters.
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Industry Commentary
NEC4-to-NEC5 transition, IPA pipeline, market structure.
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