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Contractor side: Quotations

We submitted our quotation weeks ago and the PM hasn't answered. What can we do?

Where the contract stands

The Project Manager has two weeks to reply to a quotation (62.3). After that you can notify the failure, and if there is no reply within two further weeks the quotation is treated as accepted (62.6): the event is implemented and the Prices and dates change. Without your notice, nothing is treated as accepted.

Read the guide: PM no reply to a quotation

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

In Contract Status, step by step

  1. Check where it stands

    The Quotations register lists each quotation with its value, the movement in dates, the reply date and its status.

    The Quotations Register with value, date movement, reply due and status for each quotation

    Overdue quotations stand out in the status column.

  2. Give notice that the reply is late

    Open the quotation. The banner names the amount and says what happens if the notice runs out. Add a note if you want, then press the button.

    A quotation from the contractor side with a banner saying the reply is overdue and a button to give notice

    Q-0007 from the contractor side, clause 62.6 from the contract's clause list.

  3. Record deemed acceptance

    When the notice has run out the banner changes. Until someone presses Record deemed acceptance, the status, prices and dates stay as they are. You can also withdraw your notice.

    A quotation with a red banner saying it is deemed accepted and buttons to record deemed acceptance or withdraw the notice

    Q-0003 on the NEC3 contract: either side can record it.

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

On the Client side the same quotation tells the Project Manager that the reply is overdue, then that it has been treated as accepted; a reply at that point is marked late and changes nothing. Recording it marks the quotation Accepted and updates the Prices, the Completion Date and Key Dates for its compensation event. See the Client's view of the same situation.

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