Cost & Contract Management and Procurement Strategy
HESED CONSULTANTS LIMITED provides a complete cost planning and contract consultancy service to protect our client’s financial interests by:
- Prepare preliminary cost advice to establish a realistic budget
- Prepare elemental estimate as the planning progresses and reconcile with the budget
- Analyse of costs or alternative designs, materials and construction programme
- Assist design team to obtain economical design solutions through value management involving cost studies, cost comparisons and life cycle cost analysis
- Compile of project cash flow
- Estimate for different designs, to fit for client’s expectation and help them to make a best and cost effective decision
- Advise and arrange for the tendering stage and assist in planning of preparation of drawings
- Advise on the type of contract to be adopted & procurement strategy
- Draft contract clauses to suit special circumstances of project and promote an optimal risks allocation
- Arrange fair and equitable tendering procedures
- Obtain competitive prices from selected contractors by tendering by other ways to suit particular requirements of the project such as time constraints and partnering arrangements with contractor
- Prepare pre-tender estimate
- Value the work in progress and recommend interim payments
- Measure and value variations under contract
- Prepare progressive financial statements regularly during construction period
- Assist the architect in administering and interpreting contract conditions to avoid or minimize claims from contractor
- Examine, evaluate and negotiate with contractor for any claims that may arise (extension of time, direct loss and/or expense, disruption, acceleration & global claims, etc.)
- Life cycle costing analysis
- Valuation of variations, claims and other issue and preparation of draft final accounts
- Negotiations and settlement of final account
- Analysis and compare the final constriction cost and the estimated investment cost
- Advise on the duty of maintenance issue