OC Expert Services Brochure

OC Expert Services www.ocexpertservices.com +44 (0)203 955 5171 Bridge House, 181 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4EG

Claims & Dispute Management We are regularly commissioned to investigate the cause of delay and/or cost overruns and to prepare correspondence and claim documents to seek recompense against the responsible party or parties. We apply a professional and non-adversarial approach in order to protect our clients’ business relationships and the majority of our cases are successfully resolved by negotiation or at mediation.

We are also regularly commissioned to review the merits of claims that our clients receive and to draft correspondence and documentation in response. We are also experienced in preparing, reviewing and responding to insurance claims e.g. fire, floods, defective work, insolvency, contractor default and professional negligence.

We have a detailed understanding of the factors that can give rise to delays and cost overruns and how claims for compensation need to be made if they are to be successful. We are regularly commissioned to carry out the identification, assessment and presentation of quantum attributable to the following heads of claim: Quantum Analysis

• Prolongation of the works on site • Liquidated damages for delay • General damages for delay • ‘Thickening’ of resources/preliminaries • Valuation of changes/variations • Rectification of defects (incurred and future) • Valuation of work on the basis of quantum meruit • Additional overhead costs • Loss of contribution to overhead recovery • Loss of profit

• Disruption / loss of productivity / uneconomic working • Third party claims and settlements

• Diminution in value • Reduced life cycle

• Loss of facility/process time • Inflation/price fluctuations • Finance charges • Currency fluctuations • Interest