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Daywork sheets and percentage additions

The contract states three separate percentages because they cover three different things. Applying an average to the lot is quick, and it is the reason the sheet comes back.

QScope Team·4 min read

Enter the three additions once

  1. Open Dayworks.
  2. Enter the addition on labour, on materials and on plant from your contract particulars.
  3. Every sheet from then on uses them.
Labour additions of well over a hundred per cent are normal, because the addition carries national insurance, holiday pay, pension, supervision, small tools and insurance before it reaches overheads and profit. Materials additions are much lower because most of the cost is already in the invoice.

Add a sheet

  1. Add a sheet with its number, date and a description of what the work was.
  2. Enter the net labour, materials and plant separately.
  3. Link it to the instruction that authorised the work.
  4. QScope shows the sheet total with each addition applied to its own element.
Sheets with no instruction linked are flagged. Daywork carried out without a written instruction is the hardest money on any job to recover, not because anyone doubts the work happened but because nobody can establish what it took.

Agreed is not the same as submitted

Only sheets marked as agreed are carried into the final account. Submitted and disputed sheets are totalled separately so you can see both without confusing them.

  1. When a sheet is agreed, change its status.
  2. Click Use in final account to carry the agreed total into the dayworks line.
The transfer is a deliberate click rather than an automatic feed, because an automatic feed would overwrite a figure you had negotiated every time somebody edited a sheet.

When daywork applies at all

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, and presenting it as one is how a sheet gets rejected on principle.

Daywork on a FIDIC contract

The mechanics are the same, the clause is different. On a FIDIC contract 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 rather than three contract percentages.

  1. Set the project to the FIDIC contract form.
  2. Record the clause on the variation as 13.6.
  3. Enter the resources used against the Daywork Schedule rates.
  4. The certified total is carried into the monthly Statement, and the certificate and payment dates run in calendar days.
FIDIC certifies daywork through the ordinary Statement and Interim Payment Certificate cycle, in calendar days, not on the Construction Act timetable. The dates QScope shows are published starting points to verify against the Particular Conditions.

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