Consultant Project Vehicle

Hi Ralph,

Consultants are Employer’s representative and as per my experience no item is to be specifically priced for them. Whatever are the terms for employer shall apply to the consultants.

Comming back to your question of recovering the cost of facility provided namely the vehicle, if the contract specifies the number of vehicle and providing the consultant with a vehicle is in addition to the agreed number then you are liable for variation order, if the consultant disagrees it is upto your management to continue giving this free service as a favor to consultant or discontinue it.

If however the contract says that as and when required you have to provide enough facilities including the vehicle then you do not have a claim.

Regards,


Ashraf

Thanks for your reply.

As you said ,the contractor ommitted consultant project vehicle breakdown in preliminaries .
In my opinion ,the above is not correct and the consultant supose to noteced this during the tender analysis stage and he should instruct the contractor to provide rate breakdown analysis lists for all the items in the contract BOQ includng the general items.

Hi Ashraf,

My thinking is inline with yours, I was of the opinion that the Consultants especially the Cost Consultant ought to have gone through the breakdown of the Preliminaries and General Items and ensure that required items are not ommitted. The cost consultants arguement was that anything mentioned in the P&G items wether priced or not is deemed to be included elsewhere.He argued further that P&G breakdown is for payment purpose only. I got stuck in the midway of this arguement. What do you think?

Guys,

You can only put forward a request for compensation for Company conideration and not a claim.

Regards,

Ashraf Jahangir

Thanks for your advice