The goal isn't submitting the perfect claim, it is this...

If you're subcontracting and you don't have EOT, delay protection, you can get punished for delays you didn't even cause. And that quietly, or loudly, eats into your profit. An EOT clause is your get-out-of-jail card when the whole programme blows out for reasons that are outside of your control. Weather, other trades, client approvals, whatever. Without it, you're exposed to penalties like liquidated damages, or for something you didn't even create. But here's why EOTs get knocked back in real life. It is not a delay, it's actually a paper trail. The fix is simple: have someone whose job it is to spot the delays around site, document them, and submit the notice within a day or two, and follow up with a formal EOT request. Because the goal isn't submitting the perfect claim, it's about getting it on record early so you've got leverage when approvals and payments start getting slow. And if you leave it as a side task for your project manager, it's going to get forgotten, and you're going to pay for that later. If you're losing EOTs, you're not unlucky. You're late on your own paperwork, and the contract doesn't care.