Compensation events are drifting on my NEC job

NEC is unforgiving by design. Clause 61.3 gives the Contractor a notification window, eight weeks from awareness in the unamended forms, and on most jobs that clock runs out quietly while everyone is busy building. Unlike JCT, where late claims get argued about, NEC is drafted so that a late notification can switch the entitlement off, subject to whose fault the event was and what your particular contract says. The regime rewards administration and punishes good work with poor paperwork.

The drift compounds: unnotified events pile up, quotations fall behind, the Project Manager's own assessments take their place, and by the final assessment the gap between what the job cost and what the contract has recorded can be enormous. Every week of drift makes recovery harder.