// Regulated by RICS // NEC4 and NEC3 // Framework appointments // UK-wide //
Commercial support for NEC framework appointments with private sector clients
Chartered quantity surveying and contract administration for contractors delivering package orders under NEC4 and work packages under NEC3, order by order, across a rolling programme of commercial schemes.
One of six sectors. NEC framework appointments for private sector clients.
What Peak Commercial does on NEC framework appointments
Peak Commercial provides commercial and quantity surveying support on NEC framework appointments for private sector clients. Under the NEC Framework Contract, a client appoints one or more suppliers to carry out work on an as instructed basis over a set term, and each instruction creates its own contract: a Package Order under NEC4, a Work Package under NEC3. Not everything the firm does is regulated infrastructure. This is where the same disciplines meet a private client's calendar.
James Fallon, Director, holds an MSc in Construction Law and Practice with Distinction from the University of Salford, has twenty years of experience with Tier 1 and Tier 2 contractors, and acts as the party's representative in adjudication and mediation where an account cannot be agreed. The firm's framework work covers pre-contract pricing of each order, contract administration under the order's own main option, subcontract package strategy, change through the compensation event process, and the settlement of each order's account.
A framework for a private client runs to a different rhythm from a regulated programme. There is no assurance team testing Defined Cost against a regulator's efficiency target. There is a client with a capital plan, a board that expects cost certainty, and a stream of orders that each have to be priced, delivered and closed without the last one's argument bleeding into the next. What protects the position is what we practise on infrastructure: a price that is honest at the order stage, a change account reconciled monthly, and a record that closes each order because it is hard to argue with.
What this includes
Framework contract review, pricing schedules and pre-execution negotiation
Package Order and Work Package pricing, scope review and activity schedules
Contract administration under each order's main option, NEC4 and NEC3
Compensation event notification, quotation and assessment, order by order
Subcontract package strategy, procurement and NEC subcontract administration
Interim applications, payment notices and pay less notices under the Construction Act regime
Order-level and framework-level final account preparation and settlement
Party representation in adjudication and mediation
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Water
AMP8 frameworks under NEC4 Option C and Option E, administered to survive the water company's commercial assurance and the regulator behind it. The firm is building a commercial team of more than fifteen on one major AMP8 framework.
04
Highways
Strategic road network and local authority programmes under NEC4 target cost, through the RIS3 road period that began in April 2026. Where the directors learned the trade.
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Nuclear
Civils, enabling and infrastructure packages on the nuclear estate, with Defined Cost records built to audit grade from mobilisation. Capability tier; the disciplines transfer.
// Regulated by RICS // NEC4 and NEC3 // Framework appointments // UK-wide //
Where framework accounts lose money
Framework accounts for private clients rarely fail on one event. They fail on an order priced before its scope had settled, a change nobody notified because it felt too small, a subcontract let on terms that did not match the order above it, or a payment notice served a day late that turned a dispute about value into a dispute about entitlement. Each of those is a record problem before it is a money problem.
Two things matter more on a framework than on a single project. First, separation. Each Package Order or Work Package is its own contract, with its own Prices, Completion Date and compensation event record, and a commercial team that lets orders blur together loses the ability to say what any one of them is worth. Second, consistency. A private client sees every order the framework produces, and a contractor whose records look the same on the fortieth order as on the first is the contractor who gets the forty-first.
Payment is the other pressure point. The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, as amended, sets the notice regime, and the timing of payment notices and pay less notices decides who holds the money while an argument runs. We run that regime as a calendar, on each order and on the subcontracts beneath it.
Who we act for
Contractors holding NEC framework appointments with private sector clients. Specialist subcontractors delivering packages under those frameworks on NEC subcontracts. Private sector clients who need an independent commercial view of a framework, an order or a disputed account. We act for clients on some frameworks and contractors on others. Never both on the same one.
Talk to a quantity surveyor
Talk to a chartered specialist about your framework. Send us the framework contract, the open orders and the key correspondence. We will tell you where you stand, what it is worth pursuing, and what it is not.
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