NEC3 PSC Compensation Events (CE) Template

Use this free downloadable template to help you create a compensation event notification under the NEC3 Professional Services Contract (PSC).

Compensation events are events listed in the contract which, if they occur and do not arise from the Consultant’s fault, entitle the Consultant to be compensated for any effect the event may have on Prices, the Completion Date and any Key Dates. 

The PSC contains strict notification and procedural requirements which take a compensation event from notification to implementation.

You can use these NEC3 PSC templates for notifying the following compensation events:

• Notify under clause 60.1(1) of an instruction to change the Scope
• Notify under clause 60.1(2) that the Employer has not provided access to a person, place or thing
• Notify under clause 60.1(3) that the Employer has not provided something that he has to provide
• Notify under clause 60.1(4) of an instruction to stop or not start work or to change a Key Date
• Notify under clause 60.1(5) that the Employer or Others do not work within the stated constraints
• Notify under clause 60.1(6) that the Employer does not reply to a communication
• Notify under clause 60.1(7) that the Employer has changed of a decision
• Notify under clause 60.1(8) that the Employer withholds an acceptance
• Notify under clause 60.1(9) that the Employer notifies the correction of an assumption
• Notify under clause 60.1(10) of the breach by the Employer
• Notify under clause 60.1(11) of a prevention event
• Notify under clause 60.1(12) of correcting a Defect for which the Consultant is not liable
• Notify under clause 60.1(13) of an instruction to change a Task Order (main Option G)
• Notify under clause 60.1(14) that the Consultant receives the Task Order after the starting date for the Task Order (main Option G)
• Notify under clause 60.1(15) that a Task Completion is later than the Completion Date (main Option G)
• Notify under clause 60.2 of a correction of a mistake in the Task Schedule
• Notify under clause X2.1 of a change in the law
• Notify under clause X12.3(7) of a change in the Partnering Information
• Notify under clause Y2.4 of suspension of performance

You can also use these templates to:

• Instruct the Consultant under clause 61.1 or 61.4 to submit a quotation for a compensation event
• Instruct the Consultant under clause 61.2 to submit quotations for proposed instructions
• Reply under clause 61.4 to the Consultant’s notification of a compensation event
• Notify under clause 62.5 a request to extend the time to submit a compensation event quotation
• Notify under clause 61.4 and 62.5 of a decision to extend the time for a submission or reply
• Notify under clause 61.4, 62.6 and 64.4 of a failure of the Employer to respond or make an assessment
• Notify under clause 61.5 that Employer has decided that the Consultant did not give early warning
• State assumptions under clause 61.6 about the event
• Notify under clause 61.6 that an assumption on which a compensation event is based was wrong
• Instruct the Consultant under clause 62.1 to submit alternative quotations
• Submit a quotation for a compensation event under clause 62.3
• Reply to a quotation under clause 62.3
• Notify under clause 64.3 of the Employer’s assessment of a compensation event