We found the notice clause after the window closed.
Notice and submittal obligations each start on a trigger. The trigger is written somewhere in hundreds of pages nobody has time to re-read, and the window closes whether anyone saw it or not.
Which clocks are running on this job right now?
The windows as the standard form writes them. Supplementary conditions often change them, and that is what the review checks.
Nobody misses a notice on purpose.
Nobody diarises a clause. The clock starts when something happens on site, and the person who sees it is rarely the person who read the contract.
General conditions, supplementary conditions, the agreement, Division 01. Notice provisions are spread across all of them.
Your team knows 21 days from the form. Supplementary conditions can shorten it, and nobody compares the two.
Notice provisions live in more places than anyone checks.
Every clock known before it starts.
In one real bid package, each cited to document, section and page.
What starts each clock, cited to the clause and page, before the event happens.
Including the obligations the contract never assigns to a party.
Not the one your team remembers from the standard form.
The acceptance test, so the record answers the question before anyone asks it.
Long programs and strict notice regimes.
Show us the job
where the clock is running.
Bring the executed contract and the package. We return every notice and submittal obligation, with the trigger and the window your package actually writes.
No implementation. Start with the records you already have.