Used on more than 2,500 construction projects
The bid team knew the risks. The site team inherits a contract.
What the bid team found, assumed and qualified rarely travels with the contract. Notice periods start running on day one, changes arrive with no record of what was priced in front of anyone, and the context that would prove a claim stays in the tender folder.
01
Time bars missed
Notice periods in fixed days, with loss of entitlement the site team never saw.
02
Changes with nothing to compare to
A variation is only a change if you can show what was there before.
03
Valuations checked by hand
Each payment application is checked against the contract under pressure, line by line.
What delivery needs from the tender.
Volve carries the tender into the contract, from the obligations you signed up to, to each change and valuation after it.
Duties, notice periods and deadlines extracted from the contract
Each one with its trigger and the clause that sets it
Continuous with what the bid team assessed
Instructions and revisions compared with the scope the price was built on
What changed, old and new, with the document
Change context kept for the claims you may need to prove
Payment applications checked against the contract and agreed changes
Quantities that differ from the drawings or model flagged
Each finding with the clause or sheet behind it
From the signed contract to a change you can prove.
Volve checks each change against what was priced. You decide what to do about it.
As priced: covered by what the price was built on
Change: differs from what was priced, traced to the document
Notice due: a time bar is running
Needs review: needs your reading before it can be placed
What project teams ask Volve once work starts.
Tasks from a normal tender week. Every answer comes with its source.
Every notice duty and deadline
Time bars in fixed days, with loss of entitlement if missed.
“List every notice duty with its deadline and consequence.”
What comes back
One table: the duty, the deadline in days, the consequence of missing it, and the clause behind each.
Is this a change?
A variation is only a change if the priced scope says so.
“Is the revised drainage layout in drawing C-210 Rev D a change to our scope?”
What comes back
What the tender said, what the revision says, and the clauses that decide it.
What the bid team assumed
The assumptions behind the price are the first thing a dispute asks for.
“What did we assume about ground conditions when we priced this?”
What comes back
The assumptions and qualifications from the tender, each with its source.
Check the valuation
A payment application is checked under pressure, line by line.
“Check valuation 6 against the contract and the agreed changes.”
What comes back
Each line that differs, with the clause, the change and the figure behind it.
Revisions since award
Drawings keep moving after the contract is signed.
“What changed between Rev B and Rev D of the structural drawings?”
What comes back
Every change, old and new, with the sheet and what it touches in the scope.
Context for a claim
A claim needs the before and after, and the clause in between.
“Build the timeline for the change to the foundation design.”
What comes back
Instructions, revisions and notices in order, each with its document.
GO FURTHER
The patterns, the checklist and the method
Tender pattern · one-page note
Top 7 tender issues that surface in construction delivery
Where tender-stage gaps turn up on site, and what to check first.
Checklist
How to hand a tender over to delivery
Ten checks before the site team inherits the contract, with a workbook for the handover.
Insight · the method
You don’t win a construction project once. You win it twice.
Why the tender baseline is what the second win rests on.
Claims you can prove
Each change shows what was priced and the clause behind it.
The same method every time
Your obligations register and checks on every project.
Time back for judgement
The reading and checking are done. The team’s hours go to the site, the client and the decisions that protect the margin.
From the bid team to the site team.
Project, commercial and contract teams work from the same scope and positions the bid team priced. Findings and notices are shared, so nothing the tender found is rediscovered on site.
Project managers
Run the project with the obligations and time bars in view.
Quantity surveyors & commercial
Check changes and valuations against the contract and what was priced.
Contract managers
Notify on time, and keep the context for the claims you may need to prove.
We’ve used Volve extensively on change requests, both in active projects and in older dispute cases. It structures the contractual context clearly and helps us see whether a claim actually holds up. That gives us a much stronger starting point in discussions.
Oddgeir Johnsen
Project manager, Kronstein Entreprenør
Bring one contract and its tender, and we’ll run them through Volve with you. You’ll see the obligations and time bars, what the price was built on, and how a change is checked against it. Your team makes the call.
A working session on your own documents
Obligations, time bars and what was priced
No preparation needed from your team
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