Eight Operatives. Full Shift.
Four Hours Doing Nothing.
Standing time costs UK contractors millions. Not because it happens, but because nobody records it properly.
The concrete didn't arrive. The access road was blocked. The design information wasn't issued. But the evidence? Gone before the QS ever saw it.
Book a Consultation
Six Ways Standing Time Evidence Dies Before the QS Sees It
Standing time isn't a compensation event. It's the cost consequence of one. But that cost disappears when the evidence falls apart.
Supervisors redistribute idle hours into productive time because they think it affects pay. The allocation sheet looks clean. The standing time never existed.
"Delayed due to third party." Which one? How many operatives? For how long? A vague entry is the same as no entry when it reaches the PM.
Four hours waiting for design information doesn't feel like an event. It feels like a normal Tuesday. Nobody connects it to the instruction or access issue that caused it.
Two hours here. Ninety minutes there. Each fragment sits in a separate diary entry. Nobody spots the pattern. Nobody totals it up.
Clause 61.3 gives you eight weeks to notify. Standing time accumulates slowly. By the time anyone spots the pattern, the window has closed.
The diary says "gang stood down 3 hours." The allocation sheet shows them productive all shift. The PM uses that contradiction to challenge the entire claim.
Your people were on site. Your equipment was running. You deserve to be paid. But only if you can prove it.
The Cost Nobody Counts
£50M Option C contract. 3% in variations. That's £1.5M in compensation events.
40% go unnotified. That's £600,000 left on the table. Per project. Quantum you've already earned, sitting in diaries nobody's reading commercially.
Three live projects? Five? Do the maths.
What Gather Does Differently
Late access (60.1(2)). Scope changes (60.1(1)). Late design info (60.1(3)). Weather (60.1(13)). Gather's AI maps standing time to the specific clause that triggers recovery. No other tool does clause-level alignment.
Resources. Duration. Location. Cause. Four structured fields in the existing diary flow. No separate form. No free text.
The AI matches standing time to the instruction, design change, or access issue that caused it. The connection a QS makes manually in an hour happens automatically.
Each event maps to a specific clause, 60.1(1) through 60.1(19). Standing time arrives on the QS dashboard already categorised with clause references attached.
Date, time, location, resources, cause, mitigation, notices, photos. All linked to the programme activity. Records built to withstand a PM assessment, not a retrospective reconstruction three months later.
The Five-Minute Fix
Here's what a five-minute entry at end of shift looks like inside Gather.
Open the app. Select "standing time." Allocate resources, hours, cause, and a photo. Faster than writing a text.
The QS AI Agent links standing time to existing CEs, identifies the NEC4 clause, and checks the notification timeline. By morning, the commercial team has a flagged item.
All standing time linked to this CE, total hours, cost impact, notification status. One consolidated view. Ready to submit.
Cost recovery and time impact. Site to commercial dashboard instantly.
"Using Gather, we were able to slash 11% of total project cost on the TfL 4LM project. The platform saved us at least 100 hours on providing assurance documents alone. I was so impressed, I decided to invest in Gather."
Stop Losing Money You've Already Earned
Your teams are already recording standing time. Just not in a way that survives a PM assessment.
15 minutes. Your contract type. No slides.
No commitment. No follow-up calls unless you ask.
Questions We Get Asked
Indicative annual subscriptions:
Up to £10m/year: £12,000 subscription, £2,000 setup
£10m to £50m/year: £40,000 subscription, £7,000 setup
£50m to £100m/year: £55,000 subscription, £10,000 setup
Over £100m/year: From £70,000 subscription, £12,000 setup
Training is £1,400 per day on site or £450 per session online.
Final pricing depends on project count, estimated users, disciplines, and supply chain integration. Book a demo and we'll quote for your specific situation.
.webp)
