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Service 06

Cost Management.

The number in your final account should be close to the number you signed on day one. We make sure it stays close, by reading every variation, every RA bill and every rate against what the contract actually allows.

Cost Management consultancy
Why it matters

A project does not blow its budget in one moment. It blows it in a hundred small ones, most of which nobody was watching for.

Every construction project we have seen come in over budget got there the same way. A variation approved without checking the contract. A rate accepted because nobody had time to challenge it. A bill certified without the work being verified. Each is a small hit. Together, they are the difference between a project that finishes on the number you signed for and one that does not.

We sit inside your commercial team, not outside it. Every contractor bill, every variation claim and every change order is read against what the contract actually allows, before it costs you anything.

Where money leaks on a project

Six things watching your spend, across every stage of the project.

Cost control is not one activity. It is six, distributed across the life of the project. Skip any one of them and money slips through the gap it leaves.

Before construction

Set the number honestly

  • Realistic resource planWhat materials, what labour, what equipment, in what quantities. So the budget you sign for is a budget you can actually deliver against.
  • Baseline tied to scheduleThe plan becomes a budget locked to your schedule. Every rupee has a stage against it, so drift becomes visible early.
During construction

Catch drift while it is still small

  • Weekly cost controlSpend tracked against budget every week. Variance flagged early. Corrective action recommended before a small drift compounds into a real overrun.
  • RA bills verified, not just paidEvery contractor bill checked against the contract and against the work actually done. What you certify is what actually got built.
  • Variation rates scrutinisedFor every additional or changed item, the rate you accept is the rate the contract entitles the contractor to. Not more.
At project close

Close the book cleanly

  • Clean final accountEverything reconciled against the original budget. No unresolved claims hanging six months after handover. No loose ends left in your operator's lap.
Where your contingency actually goes

A single scope change, priced fast because nobody had time to argue, can absorb your entire contingency.

Most cost overruns on the projects we have been called in to recover came in through variations, because that is the stage nobody has time to scrutinise properly. We spend most of our attention exactly there. Variation claims get the closest reading of anything on your project, because if we are not watching that room, your contingency is where the loss lands.

What you get from us

Four documents that keep every rupee on your project defensible.

Every cost decision documented, every payment certified, every variation reconciled. If your board, your auditor or your insurer ever asks how a rupee was spent, the answer is on file.

Your baseline budget

Signed off at the start. The reference point every future decision on the project is measured against.

Cost reports every fortnight

Variance, forecasts and a recommended action list. You always know where you stand and what to do next.

Certified payment records

Every contractor invoice checked and certified. If a payment is later challenged, internally or by an auditor, the paper trail is there to defend it.

A clean final account

The project closed cleanly, reconciled against your original budget. No claims left dangling, no reconciliation still to do six months later.

When this starts

Pre-tender. Before contracts are awarded.

The budget has to be in place before contracts are signed, because the contract is what locks the cost framework in for the rest of the project.

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