How to Scan a Subcontract in 90 Seconds (Free Tool, Every Australian State)
A walkthrough of the free Subcontract Risk Scanner, start to finish, on a real AS 4901-based subcontract. Drop the PDF in, pick your state, and get a clause-by-clause risk report scored against your state's Security of Payment Act and the Australian Subcontract Index: payment terms, time bars, set-off, liquidated damages, retention, termination and variations. Then the negotiation pack drafts the pushback email to the builder for you.
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This is the Subcontract Risk Scanner. It's free, there's no account, and it takes about ninety seconds. Here's how to use it.
Step one. Drop your subcontract in as a PDF. Conditions and special conditions. Leave the drawings and specs out. The scan is faster and sharper without them.
Step two. Pick the state the project is in. The scanner applies that state's Security of Payment Act. Not a generic one.
Add your email if you want the report sent to you. Tick the terms. Hit analyse.
While it runs, it reads every clause. Payment terms. Time bars. Set off. Liquidated damages. Retention. Termination. Variations.
About ninety seconds later, your report. An overall risk score out of ten, and a band.
Then category by category. Every clause scored against your state's Act, and against the Australian Subcontract Index. Real contracts, not opinion.
For each red flag, three things. What the clause says. What it costs you. And the market position to ask for instead.
At the bottom, the negotiation pack. It drafts the email back to the builder for you, clause by clause. You edit, you send.
Download the PDF for your file. Or pass the scanner on to the subbie next to you.
Your document stays confidential. Never shared, never published. Only the anonymous statistics feed the Index.
Scan before you sign, not after. theconstructioncontracts.co
General information about Australian subcontracts, not legal advice. Get advice on your own contract and facts.