Eight disciplines, delivered individually or as an integrated commercial team — wrapped around a lifecycle view of where value is created and where it leaks away.
Core services
Each of these can stand alone. Most of our work, however, ends up spanning two or three — because commercial problems rarely respect functional boundaries.
Efficient management of contracts across the full lifecycle, from negotiation through execution to final account. We set up the registers, notice regimes and reporting that convert contractual rights into recoverable positions — and make sure obligations are met before they become someone else's claim.
Developing contracting strategies that improve efficiency and mitigate risk. Which model — lump sum, remeasurable, target cost, EPC — and, more importantly, why: matched to the risk actually being carried, the maturity of the scope, and the delivery capability on both sides of the table.
Expert assessment and management of cost and quantity across construction and engineering projects. Independent measurement, valuation, cost control and final account preparation — delivered to professional standards by SACQSP-registered practitioners.
Strategic guidance and advisory to optimise organisational performance. We work on the structures, roles and processes that determine whether strategy survives contact with the operating environment — focused on cost efficiency, agility and measurable performance.
Safety, health, environmental and quality management — ensuring compliance and embedding best practice. Systems that produce evidence a regulator or client auditor will accept, and that site teams will actually follow when nobody is watching.
Programmes focused on process safety to ensure operational safety and regulatory compliance. For operations where the consequence of failure is measured in lives and operating licences, not only in cost and schedule.
Comprehensive analysis and evaluation of assets, projects and businesses to inform decision-making. Commercial, contractual and financial review that surfaces the liabilities, contingent exposures and optimistic assumptions the information memorandum did not dwell on.
Streamlining supply chain processes and optimising procurement strategy for cost efficiency and operational excellence — without quietly transferring risk back onto your balance sheet in the pursuit of a lower unit rate.
Commercial Advisory
Our Commercial Advisory division provides end-to-end support at any level — a corporate function, a project portfolio, or a single contract. The offering is built on an empirical view of where commercial risk and opportunity are actually managed and executed.
Our experts help clients understand the commercial risks they are taking on and the measures available to mitigate them. We assist in choosing the right contracting model and developing a budget that protects the profitability of the activity rather than flattering it.
Comprehensive support in selecting the most suitable contract type for the commercial activity, negotiating favourable terms and conditions, and evaluating the resulting position so that your interests are genuinely protected — not just asserted.
We make sure the systems needed to manage commercial activity are actually in place and used: contract execution discipline, systems implementation, and reporting that gives decision-makers insight rather than volume.
We work closely with clients to secure the contractual entitlements they are due and to manage any disputes that arise — covering delay analysis, variation management and dispute evaluation, resolved at the lowest level that will hold.
Identifying the risks that may credibly arise during the commercial activity, developing a risk management plan with real ownership attached, and continuously monitoring whether that plan is still effective as conditions change.
A smooth commercial closeout in which all necessary activities are completed and all learnings are captured: financials settled, risk released, delivery partners evaluated, and corporate learnings recorded while the people who lived them are still in the building.
How we engage
We are as comfortable embedded in a delivery team for eighteen months as we are producing an independent opinion in three weeks.
Building or rebuilding the commercial function itself — capability, structure, standards, systems and governance across the whole organisation.
Applying consistent commercial and assurance discipline across a programme of projects, with the visibility to direct effort where the risk actually is.
Focused support on one contract — at setup, under delay and variation pressure, in dispute, or through a closeout that has stalled.
Most clients aren't, at first. Describe the situation and we will tell you where the commercial exposure actually sits.