When Contract Compliance auditing first began we ran a successful line of defence against the deliberately slewed samples they selected. An early favourite were criminal Higher Standard Fees claims which, if assessed down to Lower Standard fees, delivered a hefty reduction and an almost certain category outcome and consequently some recoupment.
Exceptional claims contain a similar risk, though minus the extrapolation risk – you’ve just done 3 times the SF, lose some on assessment and get a maximum of a third of you profit costs. We costed our first exceptional Public Law level 3 case yesterday which had costs just above, some
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Be prepared to march into Court to challenge the provisional assessment. Interesting that as you are only