1. It's mid July 2023. You are the project manager in a progress meeting for a construction project to build a multi-million-dollar facility to make wood pellets in Gatlinburg, TN. Your company has signed a contract to supply bags of wood pellets to Walmart. The contract with Walmart calls for the first deliveries to be made on December 15, 2023. The construction contract, signed in January 2023, calls for the wood pellet facility to be finished and ready to start up operation on October 1, 2023. That schedule is tight since you know from experience that the start-up of this type of facility can eat up a lot of time. The contractor has just handed you a revised construction schedule and it shows the completion date as November 1, 2023. The contractor says he's having trouble getting some of the equipment that has been ordered from a firm in the EU. He ordered the equipment too late to get it shipped before they close for two months in the summer. 
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3. What legal options are available to your company? How would you proceed?

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As the project manager in this situation several legal options are available to your company due to the contractors failure to meet the agreedupon com... View the full answer