Instructions
Issue a variation, a discrepancy, a provisional sum expenditure or any other instruction, and Avoice carries the clause reference, the cost and time effect, and the change back into the specification and the record.
Book a demoSpec clause P20/310 and the finishes schedule will update together on acceptance.
Variations, discrepancies, provisional sums, opening up, non-compliant work, named specialists, postponement, samples and dayworks, in one composer.
Each instruction carries its cost and time effect, so the running total of change is visible rather than reconstructed at the end.
Numbered, dated and filed automatically, with the affected clauses and drawings linked both ways.
Not just variations. Most instruction tools handle changes and leave everything else to a letter. The ones that cause arguments later are the other kinds: opening up for inspection, work not in accordance with the contract, expenditure of a provisional sum. Avoice composes all of them with the wording and the clause each one requires.
| Instruction type | Clause reference |
|---|---|
| Variation | cl. 3.14 |
| Discrepancy in documents | cl. 2.15 |
| Expenditure of provisional sum | cl. 3.16 |
| Opening up and testing | cl. 3.17 |
| Work not in accordance with contract | cl. 3.18 |
| Postponement of work | cl. 3.15 |
The instruction and the specification stop disagreeing. A substitution approved on site and never written back into the spec is how a tender-issue document stops describing the building. When an instruction changes a specified product, Avoice updates the clause, the schedule and the product register together and issues the section as a new revision.
| No. | Type | Effect | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI-012 | Provisional sum | +£31,400 | Issued |
| AI-013 | Discrepancy | Nil | Issued |
| AI-014 | Variation | +£4,820 | Issued |
| AI-015 | Opening up | TBC | Draft |
Running change to date: +£36,220 against a contract sum of £12,840,000.
The clause is checked, not recalled. Instruction numbering, clause references and the people copied in are the small things that undermine an otherwise good decision. Avoice takes them from the uploaded contract and the project's own distribution list.
