Commercial Support expertise for Subcontractors (SC)
With a wealth of knowledge and a team of QS’s working across multiple UK projects, we can provide complete Subcontractor commercial support to enhance your network opportunities and offer services that reduce risk and increase competitiveness and profit margins.
Estimating and Tendering Service
We can provide Cost and Tender Estimates for varying Trade Contractors. This can be with the Subcontractor's pricing and supply chain systems, or we can offer and introduce new supply chain contacts for consideration.
Understanding where your pricing and quotations compare in the market is essential to know where the economic opportunities may lie. With access to a database of subcontractor market prices, we can provide support to ensure that our clients increase their competitiveness and tender success rate.
Estimating and Tendering services include take-offs, measurements, scope of work clarification, design input, obtaining supply chain quotations and preparing recommendations for Tender submissions.
Please feel free to get in touch by either booking a free consultation or by completing our contact form to find out more.
Subcontract Administration
Subcontract Contracts/Orders can sometimes contain unnecessary conditions that may not be that clear and do not reflect the full intentions of both parties. For instance, essential conditions stipulated at the pricing stage could be missed or not included within the final contract agreement. Before we agree and sign a subcontracting contract, we strongly recommend that the subcontractor carefully reviews and checks the Subcontract to make sure it reflects the intentional understanding.
Items that need to be considered include the agreed price, basis of merit (i.e. remeasure or lump sum), payment and retention terms, design responsibility and limitations (warranties), programme, damages, insurance, and the agreed attendance requirements. This is not meant to be an exhaustive checklist and will be subject to the type and conditions of the contract.
At KJM, we can provide advice and support on tender/quotation templates with standard or bespoke company terms/conditions, advice before agreeing on final contract terms, and support to manage contract obligations, including negotiating absolute contract terms. Both parties to a contract will have roles and responsibilities that must be adhered to. To ensure the Subcontract succeeds, we recommend carefully understanding your obligations.
Reclaiming Retention Monies
Unfortunately, unfair retention clauses and unnecessary withholding of retention sums are a constant theme within the Construction industry.
This problem affects the whole supply chain from the top down. We can provide retention management services to support companies from managing pre-contract retention agreements to reclaim retention monies post-contract.
QS Site Support
If you need Commercial support on-site, KJM can provide the necessary level of Quantity Surveyor to suit your requirements.
Whether you require an Assistant, Project or a Senior Surveyor, we can provide on-site support to deal with the necessary Commercial responsibilities and duties, from on site inspections, preparing valuations, variations and remeasurements to agreeing profitable final accounts.
Opportunities & Risk Management (ORM)
At KJM, we have flipped the standard system of Risk Management, which relies on identifying risks as the first approach, and instead, we focus on the Commercial Opportunities followed by the Risks.
We strongly believe that every project represents an opportunity to showcase your company knowledge, skills and resources in order to develop long-term relationships and thus repetitive business.
With 18 years of sector-wide experience across various Construction projects, we have been fortunate to compile a database of information allowing KJM to provide detailed Commercial Risk Registers for our clients.
ORM involves a planned and systematic approach to identify, evaluate and manage the opportunities and risks involved on a construction project to maximise Commercial Opportunities and reduce Risks.
