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This note is about errors, ambiguities or omissions which may occur from time to time and need to be rectified. for the purpose of this note, these will be referred to as ‘discrepancies’. This note is about managing client expectations around discrepancies, who bears the cost of the rectification and how related cost increases can be managed through a project contingency sum. It is important to ensure that your client understands and allows for a contingency sum A sum of money included in a building contract or preserved outside it for expenditure, if necessary, on matters unforeseen at the time that the contract price was calculated. View full glossary in their project budget to cover such discrepancies.