Independent quantity surveyors across the UK
Quantity surveying and cost advice for contractors, developers, investors, lenders and homeowners. We act for one side of each project, from the first estimate to the final account.
Professional indemnity of five million pounds, evidenced.
On every project we act for one party only. Never two sides of the same build.
The person who prices the work is the person who defends it.
Instructed across the United Kingdom, wherever needed.
Our standard
Every instruction is handled by a senior commercial lead, and every position we take is traceable back to the document it came from.
Nothing is passed down to a trainee, and nothing is sent to an offshore desk.
Quantities tie back to the drawing, entitlement to a clause, valuations to work in place.
A figure holds its shape when tender returns arrive and when a contractor disputes it.
What we do
The capacity we act in is confirmed in writing before an instruction begins. If we already act for another party on the same project, we decline.
Budgets built on a rate per square metre fail quietly, then loudly at tender. We build the cost position from measured scope and test it against current market pricing before you commit to the scheme.
Most arguments about money begin as disagreements about measurement. We produce quantities from the model and the drawings, recorded so that every figure can be traced back to the source it came from.
Procurement decides how much risk you keep and how much you pay somebody else to carry. We structure the route and the documents and the contract so that the bids you receive are genuinely comparable.
Cost drifts in small increments, then arrives all at once. We value work in place each month, test every variation against the contract and forecast the outturn while there is still time to act on it.
Final accounts settle on evidence, and never on goodwill. We assemble the account, test the contractor's position line by line and support you through negotiation, mediation or adjudication if needed.
Prepared monthly, measured and backed up, so they are hard to reduce.
Priced and recorded as they happen, with the contract clause and the instruction attached.
We check whether a notice is valid and on time, and prepare the response.
Assembled from the record built during the job, negotiated on evidence.
Support through negotiation, mediation or adjudication.
Before a facility is committed we test the borrower budget, programme and procurement against what the scheme genuinely requires. Findings arrive in a shape you can put in front of a credit committee.
Certification is an exercise in measurement rather than a paperwork exercise. We attend, measure and certify only the value genuinely constructed, with materials on site and off it treated separately.
Reports are written to be read by a credit team, not by another surveyor. Each cycle states progress against programme, spend against facility and which exposures have moved since the previous report.
The question that matters is not what has been spent. It is what it will cost to finish. We rebuild the cost to complete independently and state plainly and early whether the facility still covers it.
Undisclosed claims tend to surface at the final release. We verify the settled account against the contract and the record and confirm that the figure certified is the figure that was actually earned.
Where we work
Ten to two hundred units, where margin sits in the repeat.
Retail, homes and public realm under one contract.
Existing fabric, priced before anybody opens it up.
Live sites and sections, where sequence moves the cost.
Specification led, with very little room for drift.
Already in dispute, or heading that way.
Clients
We act for one party on each project. Never two sides of the same build.
How we work
The person who sets the cost plan is the person who defends the final account, through every step in between.
We set out what our input covers and what it does not, against the site, the programme and the budget.
Quantities come off the model or the drawings. The cost plan is built from measured scope, not a rate.
Tenders go out on a basis that makes bids comparable. Returns are analysed line by line.
Work in place is valued monthly. Variations are tested against the contract as they arise.
The final account is assembled from the record built during delivery, not reconstructed afterwards.
Scenarios
Most instructions begin at the same three points. None of them are comfortable.
We rebuilt the cost position from measured scope, identified where the drift had entered and set out what it would take to recover it. The board saw a single number rather than a moving one.
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We tested the entitlement against the contract and the record, then held that position through negotiation. Where the client was wrong, we said so early rather than late.
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We identified what was genuinely undefined, priced the exposure openly and kept it visible in the cost plan rather than buried in a contingency line.
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Eighty seven articles on the commercial questions that decide a scheme, written for developers, funders and investors rather than for other surveyors.
01Budgets, elemental cost plans, contingency and the figures a board or a lender will test.
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02NRM2, bills of quantities, model based take-off and the audit trail behind a defensible number.
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03Routes, tender lists, JCT and NEC, bid analysis and where liability actually lands.
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04Valuations, change control, outturn forecasting and the records that settle an argument.
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05Initial appraisal, drawdown certification, cost to complete and reporting written for a credit team.
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06Assembling an account, testing entitlement, negotiation and the route into adjudication.
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Yes. We prepare applications for payment, variation accounts and final accounts for main contractors and subcontractors. On any one project we act for one party only, so we never act for a contractor and its client on the same build.
Yes. That is one of the most useful moments to bring us in, because the price is still open to change.
The work suits schemes where the commercial position is genuinely complex rather than simply large. Residential development, mixed use, refurbishment and phased schemes are the usual territory. On every one of them the instruction stays with the same senior commercial lead from feasibility to final account, with no handover to a junior once the fee is agreed.
It depends on what the engagement is. Full lifecycle commercial appointments are usually percentage based against project value. Defined pieces of work, an appraisal or a set of tender documents, are quoted as a fixed sum. Expert and dispute work runs at a day rate, and ongoing oversight for investors is handled on a monthly retainer. The basis is agreed and written down before anything begins.
We hold no design fees and no software licences to sell. On every project we act for one party only: the client, the contractor or the lender. We never act for two sides of the same build. If a conflict exists, you hear about it before the instruction is accepted.
Yes. Reltic is not built around a single office. Site attendance is set by the project and the valuation cycle, wherever the scheme sits.
Get in touch
Tell us what the scheme is, where it has reached and what is currently uncertain. If it is not work we should take, we will say so and point you somewhere sensible.
We reply to every enquiry within one working day.
