Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

CONTRACT COSTS

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CONTRACT COSTS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2013
Contractors [Abstract]  
CONTRACT COSTS

NOTE 5 – CONTRACT COSTS

We define material, freight, equipment rental and sub-contractor services included in the direct costs of revenue associated with projects as pass-through costs. Since we use the percentage-of-completion accounting method to recognize revenue on construction contracts under a direct labor efforts expended method, pass-through costs have little or no impact in the determination of gross margin for a particular period. Pass-through costs as a percentage of revenue were 53.1% and 42.1% for the three-month periods ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Pass-through costs as a percentage of revenue were 54.7% and 39.1% for the six-month periods ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

We recorded $35.0 million as of June 30, 2013 and $33.1 million as of December 31, 2012 of prepaid subcontractor costs. These costs primarily represent materials purchased using customer funds, but not installed on one of our major deepwater projects. These prepayments will be recognized as pass-through costs in future periods when installed.

At June 30, 2013, we recorded revenue totaling $1.7 million related to certain change orders on two projects which have been approved as to scope but not price. We expect to resolve these change orders in the third and fourth quarters of 2013. At June 30, 2012, we recorded revenue totaling $2.1 million related to certain change orders on two projects that had been approved as to scope but not price.