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.

NEC contracts have become the backbone of UK infrastructure, utility and engineering projects. Whether you are bidding for work in energy, rail, highways, water, industrial facilities or major civils packages, your NEC tender submission is now a core differentiator and the Procurement Act 2023  has raised the bar even higher. Procurement expectations now reward stronger planning evidence and measurable Social Value. Bidders must now demonstrate: robust planning & controls cap

NEC Whitepaper: “The History of NEC – Evolving to be the world’s favourite procurement suite” The NEC story is not just “contract history”; it explains why NEC projects succeed or fail in practice. The NEC whitepaper traces the suite from its origins in the late 1980s to the current NEC4 era, highlighting the consistent theme: NEC is designed to stimulate good project management, not merely allocate legal risk after the event. First, NEC is explicit that collaboration is “har

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.