Mottenhausen
2019-01-07 11:20:47
- #1
Of course there was an offer, but it was exceeded by 10% compared to the final invoice for the above services. How am I supposed to assess this?
Once again a prime example for everyone who thinks that awarding contracts individually instead of to a general contractor will save even a cent in the end.
The maximum permissible overrun from offer to invoice depending on the case, justification, and court is between 10-25%. Your shell construction contractor is "only" 10%, so on the safe side.
But that doesn’t help you at all now: suppose someone comes along and writes, "wow, that could easily have been done with 200 fewer hours." What do you do with that information? Go to the shell contractor and say, "I read on the internet that this can be done with 200 fewer hours, now please correct your invoice!"?