Eaton Contract Services, Inc.
ConstructionClaimsExpert.com

Attention – Contractor Owners, Managers

Please allow me a few moments of your time to use this "alternative introduction" to present my web page describing my construction consulting services. Others have found them cost effective, even indispensable, given special problem circumstances. You may as well.

Whether your contracting business is large or small, prime or sub, has years of experience or is a start-up, first generation or second or third, whether primarily engaged in contracts as diverse as driving raise shafts on a water storage cavern, building a $900,000 military training facility or cleaning up a waste site………, your contracts involve risk at all levels, and may well experience reduced profits, and sometimes encounter near-impossible performance periods.

Today facility owners are expecting, even sometimes unfairly demanding, extraordinarily lower prices. Unfair contract risk-shifting to the contractor today is over the top. In today’s market, competition is extreme and contractor financial margins are thinner than a hobo’s cigarette papers.

Even in the best of conditions, construction contracting may well be the most dispute-potent vocation on the planet. If it includes U.S. Federal Government construction contracting, substitute “is” for “may be”.

Given this volatile work environment cocktail, when delays and disruptions to contract performance occur which are not of your own making, the effect on your margin can be enormously magnified. For the small contractor, survival may even be at stake.

Unfortunately, even when your entitlement to equitable contract adjustment – damages – appears indisputable to a fair-minded person, unless you have in hand an authoritatively researched, comprehensively written, powerfully persuasive Expert Report of the underlying facts and the basis for entitlement – which includes a mathematically sustainable presentation of actual contract damages – you have little if any chance of persuading the other party in meaningful negotiations. Absent such a settlement-inducing document, any settlement negotiations will probably be rejected by the responsible party.

I therefore respectfully invite your attention to my web site to learn how the investigations I conduct for clients, and my Expert Claims Report which results from it, provides this absolutely essential roadmap to settlement and recovery of damages. After I accomplish this, one of two things will happen. My client will be able to negotiate a settlement it can live with. Alternatively, with my Expert Report in hand, my client’s attorney will have almost no learning curve to climb, and can immediately begin the draft of the complaint for litigation in the court of jurisdiction.

Cordially,
Glen L. Eaton
ConstructionClaimsExpert.com
205-349-3516