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Keeping inside the eight-week time bar

Contractor side: Compensation events

We became aware of this about six weeks ago and nobody has notified it. How close are we, and how do we prove when we knew?

Where the contract stands

Under 61.3 the Contractor has eight weeks from becoming aware to notify a compensation event, unless it arises from something the Project Manager or Supervisor did and should have notified. The NEC4 subcontract allows seven weeks. Miss it and the Prices and dates generally do not change for that event, so notify now and be honest about the date.

Read the guide: Missed the eight-week time bar and Clause 61.3

This is our plain-English summary, not legal advice. Your own contract, including any Z clauses, decides.

In Contract Status, step by step

  1. Add it today, with the date you became aware

    Choose + Add on Compensation Events. The awareness box sits under the title, and it will not take a date in the future. The line under it gives the period for that contract.

    The Add Notification of CE form with the date you became aware box and the eight-week reminder

    The reminder under the date box.

  2. Submit it: the draft is only yours

    Until you press Submit it is a draft your company alone can see, and the other side is not told. Time keeps running while it sits in draft. Your own draft stays on your Action List, marked Draft: submit or cancel.

    The Action List from the contractor side with a tile for each register and a table of outstanding actions

    The Action List keeps your open items in one place.

  3. The record shows the gap

    Once it is submitted, the Dates card shows the date you became aware and how long you took to notify. If that is longer than the period, the same line says so, in red. It is information only: it does not stop you notifying.

    A compensation event record with a Dates card reading became aware and notified two days later

    CE-0002: became aware 16/03/2026, notified two days later.

What it does not do: Contract Status has nothing to count from until someone adds the event, so it cannot warn you about an event nobody has recorded. Add it as soon as you know.

All screens are from the upgraded app, using a fictional water company, Kestrel Valley Water, and its made-up contractors.

What happens next on the other side

The Project Manager replies on the record. The list of decisions includes the reasons a notification can be refused, one of which is that it was submitted after the time bar, so the reply and its reason are kept with the dates. Where the date is arguable, that record is your starting point. Contract Status records it; it does not decide who is right.

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