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QScope watches the section 110A and section 111 deadlines against each due date, so a missed notice does not turn the application into the notified sum by default.
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The clause is in the contract. The separate bank account usually is not, because nobody asked for it while the money still felt safe.
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How QScope assembles each interim valuation from the contract sum, variations, materials on site and retention, dated to the due date under the Construction Act.
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Gross valuation, less retention, less previous payments, less deductions. The order the deductions come off in changes the answer, and the wrong order is surprisingly hard to spot.
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Not at the end, if you do it right. A cost value reconciliation compares what the job has earned with what it has cost, to the same date, once a month. It is one honest table, and the first one you build will probably ruin an evening. Build it anyway.
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A statutory dispute process built for construction: a decision from an independent adjudicator in about 28 days, binding until the account is finally settled, enforced by the courts on the pay now, argue later principle. How a referral runs, and when it is worth it.
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The last of your retention hangs on one document almost nobody asks for: the certificate of making good. The sequence that gets it issued while everyone still answers your emails, and the letter for when the defects are done and the silence starts.
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A cost report answers what the job will cost when it finishes, not what it has cost so far. What belongs in it, how to treat risk and unagreed variations, and why the first bad report matters.
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A PCG costs nothing to give and is worth exactly as much as the parent behind it. Checking that parent is the whole exercise, and it takes twenty minutes.
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