Use this free downloadable template to help you create a Contractor Instruction under the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Subcontract (ECS).

The ECS gives the Contractor wide ranging powers to issue instructions to the Subcontractor. Note, if an instruction will give rise to a compensation event, the Contractor is obliged to notify the Subcontractor of the compensation event at the time of giving the instruction. That notification can be given by using form ‘NEC3 ECS Contractor Notification’

You can use this NEC3 ECS template for a Project Manager’s Instruction to do the following:

• Instruct under clause 14.3 to change the Subcontract Works Information or a Key Date
• Instruct under clause 17.1 to resolve an ambiguity or inconsistency
• Instruct under clause 18.1 to change the Subcontract Works Information to remove something which is illegal or impossible
• Instruct under clause 19.1 on how to deal with a prevention event
• Instruct under clause 23.1 to submit particulars of design of an item of Equipment (period for reply is period for reply)
• Instruct under clause 24.2 to remove an employee
• Instruct under clause 26.4 to submit proposed contract data for a subsubcontract (main Options C, D and E) (period for reply is period for reply)
• Instruct under clause 34.1 to stop or not start work, or to start or restart work
• Instruct under clause 36.1 to submit a quotation for acceleration (period for reply is period for reply)
• Instruct under clause 60.6 correcting a mistake in the Bill of Quantities (main Options B and D)
• Instruct under 73.1 on how to deal with an object of value or historical interest
• Instruct under clause 82.1 to not replace or repair the subcontract works, Plant and Material following loss or damage
• Instruct under clause 92.2 to leave Site, remove Equipment, Plant and Materials and assign the benefit of the subsubcontract to the Contractor
• Instruct under clause X12.1(4) providing Partnering Information