Our pre-contract services are essential for maintaining proper contractual, programming and financial control.
Pre-contract services are essential for maintaining proper contractual, programming and financial control from the earliest stages of a project. This will help to avoid problems such as uncertainty over contract terms, disparity between scope of work and price, the unwitting acceptance of onerous terms, together with the effects of a poorly considered and implemented procurement strategy.
The costs for failures at pre-contract stage can be considerable. QCC consider that if the initial direction of the project is flawed, this will only be exacerbated once the project commences.
QCC provides a broad scope of strategic management and pre-contract services including
- Commercial appraisal of an enquiry or contract documentation
- Risk assessment (analysis of documents to identify potentially onerous conditions)
- Specialist contract advise JCT / NEC
- Cost estimating and control
- Tender and bid support
- Procurement of tenders and the formulation of agreements
- Cost planning
- Detailed review of subcontract tenders received and assessment of the same.
- Value engineering.
- Establishing the correct logic linked critical path in the project together with a plan for the management of provisional sums/ information required dates to achieve the same.
- Dispute Avoidance; Utilising our extensive dispute resolution knowledge, QCC provides pre-contract services that can minimise the volume and quantum, of disputes on a contract and ensure that parties to a contract fully understand their risks and obligations.