Your Contract
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Enter your contract value, margin and LD rate to see where the line sits.
This number was decided before you signed.
The LD rate, the cap, whether there is a cap at all, what counts as a compensable delay and what notice you must serve to claim relief — all of it is negotiable at exactly one moment, and permanent after it. Contract Risk Intelligence reads the contract before you sign and tells you which clauses carry this kind of weight, what they do to you, and what position to take. Transparent pricing. No demo required.
Nothing is collected
No sign-up, no email, no tracking of what you enter. The maths runs in your browser.
Arithmetic, not advice
This tool divides your margin by your LD rate. It does not read your contract or assess entitlement.
Extensions of time excluded
Figures assume no EOT relief granted. Any relief you secure moves the line — that is the point of claiming it.
Disclaimer — Liquidated Damages Exposure Calculator
This disclaimer is specific to this calculator and is in addition to the general disclaimer covering all PiVOTiQ free tools, which applies in full.
This calculator performs division, and nothing more
It divides the margin you enter by the liquidated damages rate you enter, and expresses the result as a number of days and a daily percentage. It applies no judgement to either figure.
The output is arithmetic. It is not an assessment of your delay position, your programme, or your commercial exposure on the project as a whole.
Extensions of time are excluded entirely
All figures assume no extension of time relief has been granted or claimed. In practice, relief moves the line materially, and pursuing it is usually the single most valuable response to the exposure this calculator describes.
Do not read the day count as a prediction of when damages will be levied. It is the point at which unrelieved delay would consume the margin you entered.
It does not assess whether damages are validly levied
The calculator does not consider whether the liquidated damages clause is enforceable, whether the contractual preconditions to levying damages have been met, whether the date for practical completion has been properly adjusted, whether a notice or certificate required before deduction has been issued, or whether any set-off is permitted.
It assumes the rate applies. Whether it does is a question for your contract and your adviser.
Comments on a high daily rate are not a legal conclusion
Where the rate you enter is high relative to contract value, the calculator flags that a rate disproportionate to any realistic loss may be open to challenge. That flag is a prompt to raise the question, not an opinion that the clause is a penalty or that any argument is available to you.
Whether the doctrine applies depends on the contract, the circumstances at the time it was made, and matters well outside anything entered here. It is a question for a lawyer.
Margin is taken at face value
The calculator uses the margin figure you enter without testing how it was derived. Gross margin, net margin, margin before or after overhead recovery, and margin as forecast versus as currently reported are different numbers and will produce materially different results.
Be clear about which one you have used, and be consistent if you compare results.
Currency selection applies no conversion
Selecting a currency changes the symbol and number formatting only. Every figure is treated as being in the one currency you select, and no exchange rate is applied at any point. Mixing currencies in a single calculation will produce a meaningless result.
Caps are applied as entered
Where a cap is entered, damages are treated as ceasing to accrue once the cap is reached. The calculator does not consider whether the cap is drafted to apply to the damages in question, whether other heads of loss survive the cap, or whether general damages remain available where a cap or the clause itself fails.