No Accepted Programme in place? You can still assess NEC4 compensation events. This practical guide shows the baseline wording, dividing date discipline, and a simple evidence pack that gets decisions.

Subcontractor delay becomes the main contractor’s problem on NEC4. Seven pitfalls that weaken your position, and the programme-led controls that keep the narrative, mitigation and evidence defensible.

Contractors lose entitlement on NEC4 Compensation Events when the process is loose: missed 8-week time bar, wrong Accepted Programme at the dividing date, weak notices and quotations with no programme story. Here are 7 pitfalls and the controls that fix them.