Tag: Ex Gratia Payments
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Public Works Contracts Must Evolve
Irish Public Works Contracts Must Evolve Resolving a disputed public works final account, with the assistance of a neutral third party, is as much a part of the construction process today as the physical setting out of the works. However, this is simply not the way it ought to be — and it’s high time…
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Covid-19: Ex Gratia Payments and Public Works Contracts
You may recall my comments in May last year when the OGP first published guidance in relation to Employers making ex gratia payments to Contractors for costs associated with the stoppage of works and closure of sites. I both started and finished with the line: Private contractors on public works contracts do not get gifts or favours from the government.…
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Covid-19: Public Works Contracts and ‘Ex Gratia’ Payments
PRIVATE CONTRACTORS on public works contracts do not get gifts or favours from the government. For this reason, the publishing by the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) of a draft letter of agreement dealing with ‘ex gratia’ payments from Employers to Contractors can only be cautiously welcomed. For reasons that I am sure you are…