Variations
VO-09 valued as daywork, FIDIC 13.6
Basis of valuationDaywork
Contract clauseFIDIC 13.6
Labour, per Daywork Schedule£9,400
Materials, per Daywork Schedule£12,600
Plant, per Daywork Schedule£2,300
Sheet total£24,300
Dayworks
The contract states separate additions for labour, materials and plant. Applying an average to the lot is quick, and it is the reason the sheet comes back with a query instead of a signature.
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The total is certified in the monthly Statement; the Interim Payment Certificate follows within 28 days and the Employer pays within 56 days of the Statement, all in calendar days. The figures are published starting points to verify against the Particular Conditions.
The same idea has a different anchor on a FIDIC contract.
Where a variation is of a minor or incidental nature, the Engineer may instruct that it be valued on a daywork basis under Sub-Clause 13.6, priced against the Daywork Schedule in the Contract rather than against three contract percentages. The Contractor keeps records and vouchers of the resources used, and the value is certified through the ordinary monthly Statement. QScope holds the same sheet under a FIDIC contract form, with the clause set to 13.6 rather than a JCT reference, and carries the certified total into the Statement so the daywork runs down the FIDIC payment timetable rather than a separate one. Certificate and payment dates on FIDIC are counted in calendar days, and QScope shows them as published starting points to verify against the Particular Conditions.
Dayworks
The percentages differ because they cover different things.
A single blended addition of 55 per cent on the same sheet gives £8,525. Close enough to look right, far enough apart to be argued about.
Dayworks
Only sheets marked as agreed are carried into the final account.
Daywork carried out without a written instruction is the hardest money on any job to recover, so those sheets are flagged rather than quietly totalled.
Variations
Daywork is not a separate kind of change.
Sheet DW-014 totals £8,650, and that is the value carried into VO-09. The variation records why daywork was used rather than a measured rate.
Instructions
A daywork sheet with no instruction behind it is the hardest money on any job to recover.
A daywork sheet with no instruction against it is flagged rather than quietly totalled, because unauthorised daywork is rarely recovered.
Client Valuations
An agreed daywork total is not paid on the side.
QScope carries the agreed total into the certificate as a normal line, so the client sees a valuation that adds up rather than a separate invoice arriving out of sequence.
Who it is for
You are applying
You price the change and defend itYou price the instruction, submit the variation and defend it when it comes back cut. Instructed work with no variation against it is money you have already spent.
Applying for paymentYou are certifying
You value the change and answer for itYou value the variation from the other chair and account for what you cut. The register you keep is the one the final account will be argued from.
Certifying paymentYou are doing both
You build the change, paid or notYou absorb the small changes as they come, and the ones nobody wrote down are the ones you end up building for free.
Doing both yourselfYou are reporting
You fund the change, priced or blindYou check that scope changes are priced and approved before money moves, because an unpriced variation is risk the facility is carrying blind.
Recommending a drawdownThe client, the architect and the tenderer are not on this list. They are the people you let in on a link: they see the one document you sent them, answer it, and that answer is written into the record. No account, no licence, no charge, on every plan.
The questions this page raises most often, answered without a sales pitch at the end.
Only where the work cannot properly be valued by measurement at contract rates. Where a rate exists, the rate applies. Daywork is not a choice between two ways of valuing the same work.
Your contract particulars. Enter them once per project and every sheet uses them.
Where the contract adopts the RICS definition of prime cost of daywork, that document decides. A percentage applied to the wrong base is wrong however carefully it is applied.
Yes, in the files area against the project. Contemporaneous signed records are what make daywork recoverable.
Not exactly. Under FIDIC a variation of a minor or incidental nature can be instructed on a daywork basis under Sub-Clause 13.6, priced against the Daywork Schedule in the Contract and certified through the ordinary Statement and payment certificate cycle in calendar days. QScope records the clause as 13.6 and runs the FIDIC timetable rather than the Construction Act one. Statutory dates are published starting points to verify locally.
From the blog
Three pieces from the same corner of a contract as this page, answered at length and without a sales pitch at the end.
Instruction first, then the valuation ladder your contract sets: contract rates, adjusted rates, a fair price or dayworks. Where each rung applies, and why the smallest variations are the ones that never get paid.
Read nowNo single extra under two hundred pounds feels worth the awkward conversation, and thirty of them are a month’s wages. The three-sentence habit that captures small changes without souring the job, and the quote clause that makes the habit expected.
Read nowTime and money are separate entitlements with separate tests. Why an extension of time does not carry money with it, what has to be ascertained, and where these claims usually fail.
Read nowKeep reading
The contract states separate additions for labour, materials and plant. Applying an average to the lot is quick, and it is the reason the sheet comes back with a query instead of a signature.
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