Notes on contract practice in Nepal.

Pricing the crisis: fuel and bitumen under special price adjustment

Section 55(1A) is now in force but the guideline is still awaited. A nine-step method for evaluating the adjustment from verified base prices, actual input consumption and certified monthly quantities.

CDRC and Team

Time-bar clauses in construction contracts: a Nepal law perspective

When the clock runs out, so can your claim. How time bars work under Nepal law, what the Supreme Court says about when time starts, and the three deadlines every claimant has to track.

Diwasha Acharya and Manasvi Koirala

One flood, two doors: routing the Rasuwa claims through force majeure and Employer's Risk

Physical damage, prevention and the supply chain each travel a different route. FIDIC 1999, the MDB Harmonised Edition, FIDIC 2017 and the ENAA Model Form, read with the law of Nepal.

Roshan Bhatta and Sanjeev Koirala

Whose time is it anyway? Who owns the float in the programme

The Engineer rejects an extension of time because the activity “had float”. The Contractor says the float was its own. What the Protocol, the standard forms and the authorities actually say.

Sanjeev Koirala and Bishan Subedi

The award of interest where the Engineer under-certifies

A certificate paid on time is later revised upwards by a tribunal. Does interest run from the original due date? FIDIC 1999 and 2017, and the position in Nepal.

Manasvi Koirala and Diwasha Acharya

Force majeure, exceptional events and change of circumstances in construction contracts

A practical guide to PPMO, FIDIC 1999, the MDB Harmonised Edition 2010 and FIDIC 2017 — why a disaster is not automatically an entitlement, and what the record has to show.

Sanjeev Koirala and Roshan Bhatta