Applications for payment
Measured, priced against the contract and submitted with backup, every month, on time.
For main contractors and subcontractors
Senior QS capacity, when you need it
Many contractors run good sites without an in-house quantity surveyor. The money is then lost on paper: applications that are easy to cut, variations without records, final accounts that settle low. We fix the paper side.
The problem
Where the money is lost
Not on site. In the documents that follow the work, one month at a time.
Applications that invite a cut
An application without measurement or backup gives the other side an easy reason to cut it.
Extras agreed on a phone call
Work instructed verbally and never priced on the day is hard to recover months later on.
Payment notices served late
Notices run to contract dates. A missed date can decide the sum, whatever the work was worth.
Accounts settled from memory
Where the record is thin, the account settles at whatever the other side is willing to pay.
Services
What we take off your desk
Variations priced on the day
Each change is valued when it happens, with the instruction and the clause attached to it.
Payment and pay less notices
We check whether a notice was valid and in time, and draft the response where it was not.
Final accounts assembled
Built from the record kept during the job, then negotiated on evidence rather than goodwill.
Disputes and adjudication
We prepare the commercial case and stand behind it through negotiation or adjudication.
Tender and package checks
Quantities and subcontract packages checked before you commit, so the margin survives.
Timing
When contractors call us
01
Before you tender
Quantities and the risk sitting in the documents.
02
At contract
Payment and change terms, read before you sign.
03
Every month
Applications prepared, variation record kept current.
04
When a payment is cut
The notice checked and answered inside the time.
05
At the end
The final account closed, or a stalled one rescued.
How we work
How an engagement runs
- 01
Short call
You tell us the job, the contract and where it is stuck.
- 02
Scope and fee
We confirm in writing what we do, what we do not, and the fee.
- 03
Record
Contract, drawings, instructions and site records in one file.
- 04
Monthly cycle
Applications, variations and notices handled on contract dates.
- 05
Close out
The account assembled from that file, not rebuilt afterwards.
What you get
What lands on your desk
- Monthly application with measurement and backup
- Live variations register with status and value
- Notice checks with the response drafted
- Final account with the evidence behind it
- One senior surveyor, the same person each month
- A commercial file you keep when the job ends
Terms
How we take the work on
One side per project
When we act for a contractor, we act for the contractor only. We never advise the employer or the lender on the same project, and we confirm that before we start.
How we charge
Monthly support is a fixed monthly fee. A single piece of work, one final account or one adjudication, is a fixed sum or a day rate, agreed in writing beforehand.
Do you replace an in-house QS?
We can, for firms that do not need one full-time. Or we add senior capacity alongside your team on a difficult job.
Can you help on a job already in dispute?
Yes. Many instructions start late. The earlier we see the record, the more of it can still be used.
Do you work for subcontractors?
Yes, on the same basis as main contractors, with the same monthly cycle.
Which contracts do you work with?
JCT and NEC forms, and bespoke contracts. We read the contract first, because the money follows its terms.
Do you work outside London?
Yes, across the United Kingdom. Site attendance is set by the job and the payment cycle.
Services
Where this work sits
Insights
Further reading for contractors
Cost control
Pay Less Notice in Construction
A pay less notice served late can fix the sum due regardless of what the work is worth. Why the payment regime.
Read the article
Cost control
Valuing a Variation Under JCT
Variation valuation under JCT follows a hierarchy, not a negotiation. Which rule applies when, and why the order.
Read the article
Final accounts
Construction Records That Matter
Claims are decided by records made at the time. What to keep during the works, and how little effort it actually.
Read the articleClients
Who else we work with
We act for one party on each project. Never two sides of the same build.
01
Property developers
Cost certainty before the scheme is committed, and a defensible position later on, when the numbers are challenged by a contractor or a funder.
02
Funders and lenders
Independent appraisal, drawdown certification and monthly progress reporting, written to be read by a credit team, and not by another surveyor.
03
Private investors and family offices
Commercial oversight on schemes where the exposure is direct, the margin for error is small and nobody else is testing the numbers for you now.
04
Homeowners building or rebuilding
The builder’s price checked before you sign, the work valued each month as it is built, and the final account settled on evidence at the close.