Vetting of Claims under Construction Contracts

What This Service Is

Before you submit a claim document for a construction contract, you need to check it carefully. This could be a claim from a contractor for payment, a claim from an owner for problems and delays, or a formal claim for arbitration. Our service provides an expert review of the contract requirements, the facts, and how you calculated the money involved. A well-prepared claim, checked and improved before you send it, has a much better chance of success.

What the Service Entails

We check your construction claim document by looking at three things for each part of your claim: We ensure you have correctly identified the contract rule that supports your claim. We check if your calculation method is fair and follows the contract's measurement rules. We make sure you have all the evidence you need and that it is organized correctly for resolving the dispute. IndiaPropLaw reviews each part of your claim using these standards. We also look at your overall plan for resolving the dispute (negotiating, adjudication – a quick decision by an independent expert, or arbitration – a formal process where an independent third party makes a binding decision). We examine your summary schedule to ensure the numbers are accurate and consistent. Our engineering background means we can tell if the technical descriptions of events causing your claim – like delays, disruptions, or changes to the work – are accurate and match records from the construction site. You will first receive a Preliminary Vetting Report from us. After we discuss our findings and your dispute resolution plan, we will give you a Final Vetting Report with suggested changes marked in red.

Our Specialized Inputs

We specifically review how you analyzed project delays. This is often the most argued part of construction claims. We check if your 'critical path analysis' – identifying the longest sequence of tasks that determines the project's shortest completion time – is sound. We also verify if you have properly considered any 'concurrent delay' – delays caused by the owner at the same time as contractor delays.