These documents outline the work rules and obligations set forth and required by the contract.
General conditions and home office overhead are costs. The eichleay formula is one of the most used calculations when computing home office extended overhead costs or damages in construction delay claims construction delay claims about extended overhead are among the most complicated claims and almost always require the services of an expert to both determine damages and how those costs can be recovered. Items that may be included in job overhead are as follows. It is a creature of the courts in the state of new york. General conditions general requirements or field office overhead and can also include costs associated with and delineated in the general and supplemental conditions of the contract and typically division 1 of the specifications.
General conditions are all of those items that will not form part of the actual product once the project has been finalized. The most usual meanings in accounting a general overhead i e. This formula has also referred to as the direct cost allocation method. Direct cost incurred during delay period x home office overhead home office overhead owed estimated or known hooh portion of bid markup.
Field office overhead costs also known as general conditions are costs incurred at the job site incident to performing the work such as the cost of supervision timekeeping and clerical work engineering utility costs supplies material handling restoration and cleanup etc. These are indirect costs because. Job overhead costs or general conditions are in addition to the indirect or general overhead costs. General overhead indirect costs include such things as office expenses sales advertising training insurance worker s comp and business insurance legal and accounting office and shop expenses warranty work cell phones administrative salaries with labor burden taxes and the owner s salary and expenses assuming he is not.
A contractor s overhead costs traditionally have been segregated into indirect costs that are allocable among the company s multiple projects such as home office overhead costs and direct costs that are incurred specifically on account of a particular project. General conditions costs defining terms. Regular indirect overhead is part of your overall operating expenses things like rent utilities insurance for premises and employees and similar things that you have to pay o.