Checklists, matrices, and templates to help UK subcontractors review contracts and tender packs more effectively — built from real quantity surveying experience.
A structured matrix for scoring and tracking contract risk across seven key areas — payment, retention, liquidated damages, design liability, insurance, termination, and dispute resolution. Built from real UK subcontract review experience.
A practical checklist for reviewing tender packs before you price and submit. Work through six areas — documents received, scope checks, pricing risks, programme risks, commercial terms, and site constraints — to avoid the most common and costly mistakes.
A ready-to-complete template for issuing NEC4 early warning notices under clause 15. Correctly structured to meet the NEC4 requirements, with guidance on what to write in each field to protect your programme and defined cost position.
A blank, ready-to-complete NEC4 clause 15 early warning notice. Fill in the boxes, tick the effects that apply, and serve it on the Project Manager — every field the notice needs, in the order NEC4 expects it.
A blank, ready-to-complete NEC4 clause 61.3 compensation event notification. Record the event, tick the clause 60.1 ground relied on, set out the cost and programme effects, and stay inside the 8-week time bar.
A blank, ready-to-complete NEC4 clause 62 quotation. Build up the change to the Prices from Defined Cost plus Fee, set out the effect on the programme, state your assumptions clearly, and submit within the three-week period.
A blank, ready-to-complete interim payment application. Set out the valuation, apply retention, state the net sum due, and record the HGCRA payment and pay-less dates so your application stands as the notified sum.
A blank, ready-to-complete pay-less notice under section 111 of the HGCRA. State the sum you consider due, show the basis of calculation, and set out the grounds for each deduction — served in time, with the calculation shown.
A blank, ready-to-complete delay and extension of time notice. Set out the delaying event, the contractual grounds, the effect on the programme and critical path, and the extension claimed — notified promptly with records attached.
A blank, ready-to-complete NEC4 defect notification. Record what is not in accordance with the Scope, where it is, the requirement not met, and the correction period — with a correction record to close it out.
Every resource on this page exists because we saw the same mistakes being made repeatedly on real UK construction subcontracts. QSs and subcontractors signing contracts with uncapped liquidated damages. Tender bids submitted without reviewing the programme. NEC subcontracts with no early warning register in place before problems started accumulating.
These tools are the same checks the LazyQS platform automates when it analyses your contracts and tender packs. We built them as standalone interactive resources so you can use them on any project — whether you are running a manual review or using LazyQS as your first pass. The contract risk matrix, the tender checklist, and the NEC early warning template are all grounded in HGCRA, JCT, and NEC4 — the frameworks that govern most UK subcontracts.
Our view is straightforward: the information to protect yourself on a construction contract should be freely available. Better-informed subcontractors make better commercial decisions, negotiate more effectively, and get paid what they are owed. If these resources save you from a single bad contract, they have done their job.
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