A delivery delay appears likely to affect a milestone, and the contract requires written notice within a stated period after the delaying event. What should the project manager do?
Correct Answer
B) Submit the required notice and supporting schedule information within the contract period
Delay or time-extension rights often depend on timely written notice and supporting schedule information. Other choices risk waiver or ignore the contract process.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
Delay or time-extension rights often depend on timely written notice and supporting schedule information. Other choices risk waiver or ignore the contract process.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: The contractor should wait until final payment to mention the delay
Choice A gives Wait until final payment to mention the delay. Its specific error: the option delays or omits the controlling step.
Option C: Assume any delay automatically extends the contract
In procurement and contracting, Assume any delay automatically extends the contract is the wrong selection for Time extension notice: it answers the Time extension notice prompt with the wrong practical move.
Option D: The contractor should remove the milestone from the schedule without notice
The trap in D is Remove the milestone from the schedule without notice. That selection is wrong because it leaves the work at an informal or incomplete stage, while Time extension notice requires Submit the required.
Memory Technique
Remember time extension notice by its jobsite consequence: the correct move points to Submit the required notice and supporting schedule information within the contract period.
Reference Hint
Open NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management - Basic, 14th Ed.; use by topic index - liquidated damages / delay / claim notice to confirm that Delay or time-extension rights often depend on timely written notice and supporting schedule information.
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