Commercial, Contract & Claims Advisory
Protecting contractual entitlement and commercial outcomes during delivery.
Protecon supports project owners, EPC/EPCM organisations, contractors, and subcontractors throughout capital project execution. Our objective is to help clients understand contractual obligations, protect asset value, preserve entitlement, and maintain continuous visibility of emerging commercial exposure through contract-specific, evidence-led advice.
Every position is tested against: The Executed Agreement + The Contemporaneous Factual Record + Demonstrable Time/Cost Consequence.
Contract-Specific, Evidence-Led Commercial Advice
Supporting project owners, EPC/EPCM organisations, contractors, and subcontractors under FIDIC, NEC3/NEC4, and bespoke EPC/EPCM forms of contract.
Comprehensive Contractual & Claims Governance
From active contract administration to claim-merits reviews and dispute avoidance.
Contract & Commercial Management
Extensive hands-on experience under standard forms including FIDIC (Red, Yellow, Silver), NEC3/NEC4, and bespoke EPC/EPCM contracts.
- Contractual obligations and compliance mapping
- Condition precedent notices and particulars administration
- Payment, interim valuation, and milestone certification
- Commercial correspondence and contractual record building
- Extension-of-Time (EOT) clause mechanisms & time-bar risk management
- Commercial negotiation and amicable settlement strategy
Change & Claims Governance
Implementation and audit of structured change-control frameworks ensuring every variation is properly verified, priced, and logged before compounding into unresolved disputes.
- Formal instruction validity and scope boundary verification
- Original baseline obligations versus changed work obligations
- Critical schedule time effects & direct/indirect cost effects
- Cumulative variation registers & commercial exposure reporting
Project Controls & Programme Assurance
Integrated project controls connecting baseline planning, progress measurement, cost control, and risk management into actionable management intelligence.
- Planning and scheduling integration (Primavera P6, MS Project)
- Physical progress measurement and Earned Value analytics
- Cost and budget variance detection
- Performance monitoring and quantitative risk analysis
- Executive management reporting strengthening claims readiness
Claims Strategy & Dispute Avoidance
Claims are developed or assessed strictly around contractual entitlement, factual causation, procedural compliance, contemporaneous evidence, and quantification.
Identify strong and weak claim components, notice exposure, time-bar exposure, missing records, potential time entitlement, potential cost entitlement, and further work required.
Visual Change & Claims Governance Relationship
A disciplined, traceable progression connecting the original scope boundary to defensible commercial action.
Scope
Baseline contract boundary definition
Instruction
Valid formal direction or event occurrence
Responsibility
Contractual risk allocation determination
Time Effect
Critical path impact & delay analysis
Valuation
Direct, indirect & disruption quantification
Records
Contemporaneous evidence collation
Commercial Action
Formal notice, settlement or defense
Service Family Deliverables
Typical outputs delivered across contract administration, change governance, and claims advisory engagements.
Safeguard Contractual Entitlement & Commercial Position
Engage our commercial and contract advisory team to conduct an early claim-merits review or structure active variation governance.