Software development IT contract

We have won a small software development project (< £50k), it’s a fixed cost project with delivery milestones that have payments associated to them. We have a breakdown of all the activities, efforts and milestone that were used for project approval. We are urgently looking for somebody to put the heads of terms/SOW in a contract that has some protection for us. The biggest challenge we find ourselves, is when the customer endlessly is delaying us either on dependencies or testing. We obviously losing money by having resources assigned but have no way of contractually escalating and even associate some sort of penalty on delays. I am aware these things go both ways, so happy for the penalty regardless how small to be both ways.

If you are interested in the project, please respond why you may be suitable and examples where you have done this before.

PLEASE RESPOND ONLY IF YOU HAVE RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AND HAVED WORKED IN UK COMMERCIAL LAW.

Thank you and look forward to working with you.