When you need it
Use this notification when an event under the project's actual NEC contract requires formal communication through its compensation-event process, including expected events whose relevant facts and effects are still developing.
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Compensation Event Notification
Notify an identified compensation event under the selected NEC contract and preserve a clear record of service.
How to use this templateThis Word template contains prepared headings, tables, project fields and completion notes. Add your information, review the completed document and remove the notes before issue.
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Learning
How to use this template
What it helps you decide
It preserves a clear record of the event, relevant dates, notification purpose, and service route, helping the parties address contractual process requirements without confusing early warning, notification, and quotation stages.
How to complete it
- Complete Contract and communication details from the executed NEC agreement, checking the form, edition, options, amendments, named roles, and communication system.
- Describe Event and relevant dates using actual records, then explain the applicable contract basis without replacing the notification with an early warning.
- Summarize potential effects, attach supporting records, and complete Service and response record with verified contractual periods and evidence of actual communication.
Who prepares and reviews it
The contract manager typically drafts the notice with site, design, and planning evidence. The sender and recipient must match the applicable NEC form, amendments, and project communication arrangements, reviewed by authorized contract personnel.
A mistake to avoid
Assuming an early warning, meeting minute, or informal email automatically satisfies the required compensation-event notification can leave the actual communication process incomplete.
Illustrative example
Illustrative example: an instructed change alters a retaining-wall foundation. The contractor records the instruction date, awareness date, affected design, and preliminary programme concern in a compensation event notification. The record supports the required contractual response while leaving the later quotation and assessment clearly separate.
Document contents
- Contract and communication details
- Event and relevant dates
- Contract basis and notification purpose
- Effects and supporting records
- Service and response record
Required inputs
- Project name, location, company, document number and revision
- Actual project scope, source records and responsible roles
Practical tools.
Professional judgment.
Confirm the adopted edition, local amendments, National Annex where relevant, and contract requirements.
Prepare project brief