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Standard contract agreements contemplate various types of claims that frequently arise on construction projects and for certain categories of claims these contract forms include pre-claim provisions that allow respondents an opportunity to review the impact and, if so determined, issue a change in the claimant's contract sum and/or contract time before the claimant initiates dispute resolution. Thus, it is important for the claimant to define the nature of a potential claim so it can evaluate whether any pre-claim steps are necessary before it invokes the dispute resolution process. Below is a sample of impacts that often require a pre-claim notice. Each of the examples below is based on a contractor being the claimant and an owner being the respondent and these two parties have entered into a standard contract form and the owner is responsible for the design on the project.