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The Accepted Programme is the main reference document of an NEC contract. It sets the baseline against which compensation events are assessed for time (cl. 63.5), and the Project Manager uses it to plan their own decisions. When the programme regime fails, the change regime fails with it.
This summary is for guidance only and is not legal advice. Periods shown are NEC4 ECC defaults; your Contract Data, Scope and Z clauses may change them.
Submitted within the period stated in the Contract Data, unless a programme was identified in the Contract Data at award.
Applies until the Contractor submits a first programme showing the information the contract requires.
Reasons for non-acceptance: plans not practicable, required information missing, plans not represented realistically, or does not comply with the Scope.
If the PM fails to reply, the Contractor may notify the failure. If the PM still does not reply within a further week, the programme is treated as accepted.
Showing actual progress, its effect on remaining work, how delays will be dealt with, and proposed changes.
From becoming aware of the event. Late notification can lose the entitlement unless the PM should have notified it.
Including changes to Prices, delay to Completion Date and Key Dates, and alterations to the Accepted Programme (cl. 62.2).
Instruction to revise, acceptance, or notice that the PM will make their own assessment (cl. 64).
Enter the dates you know. The calculator fills in the next NEC4 deadlines and the deemed-acceptance routes.
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Guidance only. The calculator does not account for agreed extensions (cl. 61.4 / 62.5), public holidays or amended Contract Data. Today is taken from your device's date.
Tick what your programme shows today. The first group is clause 31.2 content; the second is the schedule quality a Project Manager (or an expert) will test.
CLAUSE 31.2 CONTENT
SCHEDULE QUALITY
NEC4 removed the NEC3 requirement in cl. 32.1 to show the effects of implemented CEs, which has caused debate. Industry guidance (for example CECA's NEC4 bulletins) generally supports showing the effects of notified events transparently. We agree, and we show them clearly identified so the Project Manager can see the Contractor's realistic plan.
Time risk allowance is the Contractor's own allowance for risk within activity durations or as distinct activities; it is owned by the Contractor and is not float. Terminal float is the gap between planned Completion and the Completion Date. Under cl. 63.5, CE delay is measured on planned Completion, so the Contractor keeps the benefit of terminal float.
No. The alterations submitted with a cl. 62.2 quotation show the effect of that event. A programme becomes the Accepted Programme only through acceptance under cl. 31.3 (or deemed acceptance).
The Project Manager may assess the CE (cl. 64.1), and where there is no Accepted Programme the assessment may be made using the PM's own assessment of the programme for remaining work (cl. 64.2). This usually works against the Contractor.
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