Missed Early Warning — Effect on CE
If the PM decides the Contractor did not give an early warning which an experienced contractor could have given, this is stated in the instruction to submit quotations. The CE is assessed as if the early warning had been given.
Missing an early warning does NOT invalidate the CE itself. However, the assessment will assume the Contractor knew about the risk earlier and should have mitigated it.
This clause is often misunderstood as a CE time bar. It is NOT. The actual time bar is the 8-week notification deadline in 61.3. Missing early warning only affects the assessment amount.
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