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Contracts and Claims
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Delay and Claims Analysis
Four construction-claims calculations under one select. Schedule delay analysis: the as-planned network pasted in the Project Schedule format and a table of delay events (activity, days, start day, responsibility owner / contractor / neither / both) analysed by the impacted as-planned method (each event inserted as a fragnet in chronological order, the extension attributed per event with the sensitivity to insertion order), by time-impact windows (the schedule updated to each window start with the as-built durations entered, the event inserted, the extension attributed to the event and to progress), by the collapsed as-built method (each party's delays removed from the as-built schedule) and a concurrency test by the literal (day-by-day overlap) and functional (same analysis period) definitions, giving the entitlement summary of excusable-compensable, concurrent, excusable non-compensable and non-excusable days, with a time-scaled bar chart of the delays by party; an unusually-severe-weather check by the ER 415-1-15 monthly comparison. Damages: liquidated damages at the contract rate, the unabsorbed home-office overhead by the Eichleay formula (exactly and with the DCAA manual's rounding), the per-diem, total-cost and modified-total-cost alternatives, extended field-office overhead, acceleration cost and the loss of productivity by the measured-mile comparison of a pasted daily production record. Price adjustment: an index-based economic price adjustment with the threshold and cap of the FAR 52.216-4 clause and the Contract Disputes Act simple interest at the Treasury rates per six-month period. Notice and timeline: the entered dates against the 10-day notice of FAR 52.249-10, the 20-day cost limit and 30-day assertion of FAR 52.243-4, the six-year claim limit and the 60-day decision window of 41 U.S.C. 7103, and the appeal periods. The default case is an illustrative eight-activity project of 80 working days with an owner delay of 8 days and a contractor delay of 5 days overlapping on the foundations and 4 days of unusually severe weather on the steel (impacted completion 93 days: 8 owner, 1 contractor, 4 weather; 4 days literally concurrent), and the DCAA Contract Audit Manual 12-804.5 Eichleay example ($598,400 of $1,397,000 billings, $220,000 overhead, 730 days performed, 365 delay days: $47,450 as the manual prints it).
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