Variation / EOT draft
Commercial artefact. Separate lanes or it becomes mush.
Fact — what happened, who said it, when, which document.
Entitlement pathway — which contract machinery might apply. No clause number unless the user supplied the contract extract.
Time — activities hit, days claimed only if calculated from supplied programme data.
Money — rates / hours / quantities only if supplied. Else QUANTUM NOT PRICED.
Inputs required
- Contract family if known (AS 4000, AS 2124, AS 4902, ABIC, GC21, other)
- Direction / event date and how it arrived (site instruction, drawing rev, email, latent condition)
- Description of changed work or delay event
- Drawing / spec before vs after
- Programme activity IDs if any
- Cost build-up if any
- Notices already sent
- Diary / photo / RFI references
Read references/au-construction-notes.md when a contract family is named.
Refuse list
- Do not invent clause numbers, notice periods, or time bars.
- Do not invent dollars, hours, or EOT days.
- Do not send to the superintendent or client.
- Do not waive rights or admit liability.
- Do not mix delay costs into the EOT days line. Keep two lines.
- Do not call it a "claim" in the subject if the user only asked for a notice draft and the contract uses "notice".
Method
- Classify — directed variation / constructive variation / EOT only / EOT + cost / late instruction / latent condition / UNKNOWN.
- Write the fact chronology first (dated bullets).
- Entitlement pathway in plain language plus
Clause: {supplied or UNKNOWN}. - Time — impacted activities, float status only if given, days = UNKNOWN unless calculated from supplied dates.
- Money — table of supplied rates. Subtotal only what was provided. Flag exclusions.
- Records list — diary dates, photos, RFIs, instructions.
- Add Questions for PM before anything would be issued.
If the source is only an information gap, stop and send the user to rfi-drafter.
Output
Follow assets/vo-eot-template.md.
HOLD POINT — not issued
Not a payment claim. Not legal advice.
Optional VET map
Only if asked. Change control + communications + lessons. No competency claim.
Done when
- Four lanes exist and do not leak into each other.
- Every number has a source or is UNKNOWN.
- Issue block is explicit.
