Two-stage and design and build bids
We take off your hands: pricing design risk, tracking design changes and building second-stage prices on two-stage and design and build bids.
You get: a priced list of gaps in the employer's requirements, tracked value engineering options and an adjudication pack for your directors to settle the price.
Get a price for thisOr check first: Are we ready for AI?
The problem
We win at first stage and lose our margin by the second.
What is in this package
- Find value engineering options and track the savings agreed
- Assess the knock-on effects of a design change on programme, cost, orders and other packages
- Keep the project document register current and catch out-of-date copies in use
- Report late drawings and design information against the schedule
- Separate design development from client change on design and build jobs
- Draft the qualifications and exclusions schedule for a tender
- Estimate embodied and whole life carbon from the cost plan or bill
- Prepare the tender adjudication pack so directors can settle the price
- Cost over budget to agreed value engineering options and a reconciled priceWhole process
- Build the design responsibility matrix and flag gaps and overlaps
- Price the design risk in what the employer's requirements leave open
- Produce the monthly open-book cost report on cost-plus and two-stage contracts
15 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
- Tender documents
- Design programme
If those aren’t in place yet, you’ll hear that before anything gets built.
Who it’s for
- Main contractors
- Specialist subcontractors
What would this cost for your team?
Answer questions about your company and how this work runs today. You see an indicative estimate of the hours back, what that time is worth and the price when you send your details.
Get a price for thisOr check first: Are we ready for AI?