This library is compiled from professional experience and publicly available material. It is general reference. Nothing in it is drawn from the file of any particular entity, and no item describes any actual project. Read it as a list of things worth testing — not as an allegation about anyone.
What the signal looks like. A contract signed before the project approval decision; work started before the construction permit.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. The person signing the decision does not hold authority for that project class or that value band.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. Shortened procedures used for a project or a locality that is not within the pilot scope.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. Records and decisions prepared late but bearing the date they ought to have carried.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. Capital paid per the accounting records differs from the figure held by the Treasury or the servicing bank.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. The sum of all payment tranches exceeds the contract price plus valid addenda.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. A contractual advance has not been fully offset although the works are complete.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. Quantities executed but no capital allocated in the public investment plan.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. The settlement schedule records more than the corresponding acceptance record.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. One work item counted in two different packages, usually where two packages meet.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. Current norms used for quantities accepted years earlier.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. Tunnelling, signalling installation, integrated testing — not present in the general norm system.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. Escalation paid on a lump-sum contract or a fixed unit-rate contract.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. An index for a different province, a different type of works, or a different period.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. A lump-sum contract settled on measured quantities, or the reverse.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. An addendum adjusting quantities or price signed after that part was accepted.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. An international-form contract defining scope by output, with no bill of quantities to check against.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. Contract price plus addenda exceeds the package price in the contractor selection plan.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. Actual cost exceeds the amount derived from the percentage norm on construction and equipment cost.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. Stationery, electricity and water of the project management unit charged on top of the norm.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. Settled value of a consultancy contract exceeds the contract price plus addenda.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. The balance equation does not hold: cost, less amounts not chargeable to assets, less surplus stock, does not equal asset value.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. Common costs split across items by feel rather than in proportion to capital.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. The same item appears in two handover records, or in none.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. Losses, or costs of a cancelled item, with no decision of the competent authority.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. Balances recorded by package name rather than by contractor legal entity, or several contractors merged.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. The auditor does not control despatch and receipt, so the evidence loses reliability.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. Materials still in store after completion with no decision on what happens to them.
Attention: Low
What the signal looks like. Electricity, operating payroll and insurance during trial running charged to investment cost with no basis for doing so.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. An item carried out by an independent foreign body, commonly omitted when the project was prepared.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. Rates applied to different transaction types inconsistently, or at the wrong date.
Attention: High
What the signal looks like. Large amounts that form no fixed asset, easily suspended at settlement.
Attention: Medium
What the signal looks like. Cash flows and assets of the two are mixed, and cannot be separated at handover.
Attention: Medium
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