Checklists, matrices, and templates to help UK subcontractors review contracts and tender packs more effectively — built from real quantity surveying experience.
A structured matrix for scoring and tracking contract risk across seven key areas — payment, retention, liquidated damages, design liability, insurance, termination, and dispute resolution. Built from real UK subcontract review experience.
A practical checklist for reviewing tender packs before you price and submit. Work through six areas — documents received, scope checks, pricing risks, programme risks, commercial terms, and site constraints — to avoid the most common and costly mistakes.
A ready-to-complete template for issuing NEC4 early warning notices under clause 15. Correctly structured to meet the NEC4 requirements, with guidance on what to write in each field to protect your programme and defined cost position.
Every resource on this page exists because we saw the same mistakes being made repeatedly on real UK construction subcontracts. QSs and subcontractors signing contracts with uncapped liquidated damages. Tender bids submitted without reviewing the programme. NEC subcontracts with no early warning register in place before problems started accumulating.
These tools are the same checks the LazyQS platform automates when it analyses your contracts and tender packs. We built them as standalone interactive resources so you can use them on any project — whether you are running a manual review or using LazyQS as your first pass. The contract risk matrix, the tender checklist, and the NEC early warning template are all grounded in HGCRA, JCT, and NEC4 — the frameworks that govern most UK subcontracts.
Our view is straightforward: the information to protect yourself on a construction contract should be freely available. Better-informed subcontractors make better commercial decisions, negotiate more effectively, and get paid what they are owed. If these resources save you from a single bad contract, they have done their job.
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