Clause36 AccelerationClause36 (Clause 36.1) Project Manager may instruct the contractor to provide a quotation for acceleration Changes to key dates to be included Proposed price changes Revised Programme Full details of assessment to be provided Does not give Project Manager Power to instruct acceleration This involves a change in obligations and requires agreement Failure to achieve AccelerationWhat consequences follow failure by the contractor to achieve acceleration after being paid to do so? The contractor becomes liable for delay damages Liquidated or un-liquidated dependent on if option X7 used No provision for employer to recover monies on an accepted quotation The risk of achieving acceleration is effectively sharedIn NEC a statement of how the contractor intends to do the work is required In effect this is a resource statement, a list of resources that are intended to be used for each activity Clearly this list will be based on the scope of the work at the time of submittal of the programme The resource statement will also facilitate the assessment of compensation events Float The time available for an activity in addition to its planned duration Free float The time by which an activity can be delayed or extended without affecting the start of any succeeding activity Total float Total float is the time by which an activity may be delayed or extended without affecting the total project duration Negative total float Negative float occurs when an activity on the critical path is behind programme.It is a programming concept, the manifestation of which is, of course, delay Who does float belong to? Overall it belongs to the Contractor This does not mean that at an item by item basis is entirely for the Contractors use May have to be absorbed in re-programming, hence could said to belong to the employer
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