Cost planning and contractor procurement
We take off your hands: building cost plans, analysing returned tenders and getting contracts, warranties and bonds in place on every project.
You get: draft cost plans, tender reports and contract summaries from one cost record, with missing warranties and bonds chased, for your cost consultants to check.
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The problem
Cost plans and tender reports take our best people days each.
What is in this package
- Write meeting minutes and an action list from a meeting recording
- Collect and check insurance certificates against what the contract requires
- Analyse returned main contractor tenders and draft the tender report
- Find value engineering options and track the savings agreed
- Compare design and build proposals against the employer's requirements
- Explain cost plan movements between design stages
- Check shortlisted contractors before inviting them to tender
- Assemble the RIBA end-of-stage report and client sign-off pack
- Benchmark a tender price against past jobs and elemental rates
- Estimate embodied and whole life carbon from the cost plan or bill
- Summarise a building contract into its key terms and amendments
- Early cost plan to tender reportWhole process
- Review contracts and terms against your standard positions and flag risks
- Two-stage tender: first-stage appointment to agreed contract sumWhole process
- Employer's requirements to appointed design and build contractorWhole process
- Employer's requirements to design and build tender recommendationWhole process
- Chase collateral warranties, bonds and guarantees owed to you
- Keep the project risk register current from minutes and reports
- Compare the whole-life cost and carbon of design options side by side
- Check a contractor's second-stage price against the cost plan
16 more parts, which a call confirms.
We price a whole package as one build (our rule). A call confirms it.
What it needs to work
- Cost databases
- Tender returns
If those aren’t in place yet, you’ll hear that before anything gets built.
Who it’s for
- Developers and housebuilders
- Surveyors and cost consultants
What would this cost for your team?
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