About Clause 60
Why a commercial manager built Clause 60.
Clause 60 was founded by Sheldon Wright — a chartered commercial manager (MCICES) who has spent over twenty years assessing NEC compensation events, and built the tool he wished he'd had.
Why I built it — twenty years of NEC compensation events
"I've worked on compensation events under the NEC for over twenty years. Over that time — and increasingly through my consultancy work — two things became impossible to ignore: the burden that assessing compensation events puts on your time, and the pressure to make every one robust and defensible.
I'm also genuinely enthusiastic about what modern technology can do for the way construction projects are managed. That combination — the burden, and the belief it could be done better — is what prompted me to build Clause 60. I took it from an idea and built the application from scratch."
The experience behind it
Sheldon is a chartered commercial manager (MCICES) with over 20 years assessing compensation events under the NEC forms of contract — from quantity surveyor to senior commercial manager on some of the UK's largest infrastructure programmes. His career spans major highways, rail, environmental and utilities schemes from £5m to £4bn — including the £4bn Transpennine Route Upgrade (Network Rail) and National Highways' £1bn Routes to Market framework — with tier-one contractors including BAM Nuttall, across NEC 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions and Options A to E. He continues to advise major contractors and energy and infrastructure clients through his consultancy, Wright Commercial Consultants.
Where we are today
Clause 60 is a UK company — Clause 60 Limited — built to the standard the industry should expect of anyone handling its contract data. The platform has been independently penetration-tested by a CREST-certified firm, we're Cyber Essentials certified across the whole organisation, and we're registered with the ICO and built to UK GDPR. See how we protect your data →
The ambition
Every compensation event assessed properly, on time, on both sides.
That is the whole of it. Not every event gets a proper assessment today — not because commercial teams lack the skill, but because the quotations arrive faster than the hours do, and the one that gets the full treatment is the one somebody had time for. We are building Clause 60 so that the standard applied to a compensation event does not depend on how busy the week was.
On both sides is deliberate. A review that only works for the party paying for it is worth very little when it is challenged. The same pack produces the same analysis whoever runs it, and that is what makes a position built on it hold up.
Roadmap — NEC coverage live today and next
Our direction of travel — the first is live today; the rest are what we're building next. Indicative, not a commitment to dates.
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Live now
NEC3 & NEC4 ECC, Options A–E · Primavera P6 (XER) and Microsoft Project (XML) programmes
Structured review of the pack, the contract and the programme — contractual basis, cost, time, internal consistency, risk and liability.
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Next
CE Principle Checker
A fast validity-in-principle check — the right clause, notified in time, genuinely a compensation event — before you get into the detailed assessment.
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Next
Omitted-cost detection
Flagging cost a quotation should have included but didn't — missing preliminaries or time-related staff a claim has quietly left out.
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Planned
Change register
A project-level register of early warnings, changes and compensation events — one source of truth that feeds every review.
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Planned
Additional programme formats
Microsoft Project (XML) import shipped on 30 September 2026, alongside the Primavera P6 (XER) support already there. Asta Powerproject exports the same XML format and should work by the same route; we have not yet had a real Asta file through it, so it stays on this list until we have.
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Planned
Additional contracts
Coverage beyond NEC3/NEC4 ECC — further NEC contract types and other standard forms.