Owner-furnished kitchen equipment arrives three weeks late and blocks rough-in completion. What should the contractor do under normal contract administration?
Correct Answer
C) Submit required notice and schedule support for any time or cost impact caused by the late owner-furnished equipment
Late owner-furnished equipment may support a time or cost claim only if the contractor follows notice and support requirements. Other choices waive, remove, or falsify the issue.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
Late owner-furnished equipment may support a time or cost claim only if the contractor follows notice and support requirements. Other choices waive, remove, or falsify the issue.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: Backdate the delivery ticket
Choice A (Backdate the delivery ticket) is rejected because it leaves out the controlling Owner-furnished equipment delay result: Submit required notice and schedule support for any time or cost impact caused by the late.
Option B: Absorb every impact without notice
In procurement and contracting, Absorb every impact without notice is the wrong selection for Owner-furnished equipment delay: the option delays or omits the controlling step.
Option D: The contractor should delete the kitchen equipment from the project
Choice D gives Delete the kitchen equipment from the project. Its specific error: it removes the controlling Owner-furnished equipment delay requirement instead of meeting it.
Memory Technique
Remember owner-furnished equipment delay by its jobsite consequence: the correct move points to Submit required notice and schedule support for any time or cost impact caused by the late owner-furnished equipment.
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 Late owner-furnished equipment may support a time or cost claim only if the contractor follows notice and support requirements.
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