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Increment 2322 Sep 2027Headquarters / Community CenterDecision

Adverse-weather extension request

A SABER prime forwards its roofing subcontractor’s request treating every unsafe rain interruption as excusable, forcing trainees to determine whether the encountered weather was unusually severe.

The situation, for each audience

Keep the trainer context out of trainee packets and read-aloud materials.

Trainee facing · Read aloud

Current situation

Outer Heaven Builders, LLC, is the prime on a separately awarded SABER task order to replace the Mother Base Community Support Center roof. It has disclosed Diamond Dogs Roofing, LLC, as its roofing subcontractor. Outer Heaven forwards the subcontractor’s request for an eleven-calendar-day extension after frequent September rain, stating that roofing could not safely proceed on eleven scheduled days. Site photographs show standing water and saturated materials.

The prime adopts the subcontractor’s position that the rain justifies the requested extension. L-01 supplies the transmittal, subcontractor request, and task-order time baseline, while L-02 combines the daily-report entries and photographs. Decide what additional information, if any, is needed before acting on the request.

Trainer only · Do not issue

Facilitator context

Release at Increment 23 after the Community Center is separately acquired. This teaches that the clause concerns unusually severe weather, not every period when ordinary seasonal weather interrupts an activity.

Trainees should administer the request through Outer Heaven as the prime and obtain both the accepted historical planning baseline and the actual site-weather observations. The intended facts show eleven qualifying September days when twelve were reasonably anticipated, so deny the extension because the weather was not unusual. ‘Weather is always contractor risk’ reaches the result for the wrong reason.

Give only L-01 and L-02 initially. Release L-03 for a request concerning expected or historically anticipated weather and L-04 for a request concerning actual weather observations. No other prompt-only [L] documents remain. The task order states that FAR 52.249-10 is incorporated, so trainees may use the listed regulatory source rather than receiving a separate clause handout.

Trainer clue bank

Regulatory signposts

3 sources

Direct trainees to a citation when they need a narrower clue. Have them apply the contract’s actual clauses, current thresholds, local policy, and the facts before treating any signpost as dispositive.

Give initially

2 records

These establish the decision without answering the factual questions trainees should identify.

L-01

Prime transmittal, subcontractor request, and task-order time baseline

Preserves the prime-contractor relationship, requests an eleven-day noncompensable extension, identifies the 30 October completion date and $8,500 daily rate, and documents the contractor's stated basis without establishing entitlement.

Draft document availablePDF · 2 pages · Editable Word copy
L-02

Roofing daily reports and photographic log

Combines the eleven interruption entries with dramatic rain photographs that corroborate wet conditions and stopped roofing work but do not resolve the requested extension.

Draft document availablePDF · 2 pages · Editable Word copy

Give only after trainee prompting

2 records

Use the prompt as a release gate; close-enough trainee questions should count when they seek the same underlying fact.

Prompt / triggerHandoutExercise purpose
PromptAsk what weather the task order reasonably anticipated
HandoutL-03
Historical and anticipated adverse-weather baseline
Draft document availablePDF · 1 page · Editable Word copy
PurposeProvides the accepted September planning allowance.
PromptAsk what weather occurred during the claimed period
HandoutL-04
Actual site weather observation log
Draft document availablePDF · 1 page · Editable Word copy
PurposeIdentifies the eleven dates that meet the same counting criterion.

What a strong analysis should surface

  1. Compare the accepted September weather baseline with the actual qualifying weather days before deciding.
  2. Unsafe working conditions do not automatically establish excusable delay.
  3. Under the intended facts, deny because the eleven qualifying days did not exceed the twelve days reasonably anticipated for September.

Available response options

5 options

Offer options in plain language and accept equivalent trainee analysis. Do not reveal the assessment labels. Use each availability gate before accepting a contextual response, and use the trainer line to redirect a superfluous answer immediately.

How to run this node: L3 is the common initial response. L5 is the intended final answer after trainees request and compare L-03 and L-04.

L1Weak

Grant all eleven unsafe rain days.

Available when
Initially available
Trainer line
Unsafe conditions explain why roofing stopped, but they do not establish that the weather was unusually severe. What comparison records support that conclusion?
Leads next
Return to L3.
L2Weak

Deny all relief because weather is always the contractor’s risk.

Available when
Initially available
Trainer line
Ordinary weather is generally planned for, but the clause can provide time for unusually severe weather. Apply the actual test.
Leads next
Return to L3.
L3Strong

Request the accepted historical-weather baseline and the actual site-weather log before deciding.

Available when
Initially available
Trainer line
That obtains the two records needed to test whether the encountered weather exceeded what the task order reasonably anticipated.
Leads next
Unlock L5 after L-03 and L-04 are compared.
L4Weak

Split the eleven days and grant half.

Available when
Initially available
Trainer line
A compromise number is not a weather analysis. Compare the actual qualifying days with the accepted baseline.
Leads next
Return to L3.
L5Strong

Deny the extension because L-04 shows eleven qualifying September days while L-03 anticipates twelve.

Available when
Unlocked after L-03 and L-04 are compared
Trainer line
The requested eleven days do not exceed the accepted September baseline, so the contractor has not shown unusually severe weather for this request.