Independent commercial advice for construction clients — health checks, delivery model selection, procurement strategy and second opinions on live disputes. Priced in the open. Based in Melbourne, working Australia-wide.
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Health check
$12,000 fixed
Reviews
Quoted per scope
First pass
2 business days
When Clients Call
Five moments, over and over
The project is going sideways
And nobody internally can say precisely why. The numbers have moved, the programme has slipped, and the reporting is reassuring in a way that answers none of it.
A delivery model needs choosing
And the advice is coming from parties who benefit from the answer.
A tender is about to be issued
And someone senior has a feeling the documentation is not ready. That feeling is usually right.
A claim needs assessing
By someone who was not involved in creating the situation, and who has no stake in how the position was arrived at.
The closeout has stalled
The project finished months ago, the final account is still open, and nobody is pushing it. That money does not collect itself.
Project Health Check
$12,000 fixed. No scoping call required to get that number, because it is the same number for everyone.
Full document set read — contract, programme, drawings, registers, cost reports
Programme and float position tested against the contract dates
Scope gaps that are live, and what they are likely to cost
A written report in priority order, deliberately blunt
Delivery model selection
The right model depends on how well documented your design actually is, not on how well documented you hoped it would be by now.
Lump sum, construct only, design and construct, managing contractor
Risk transfer assessed against your organisation actual capacity
The documentation-certainty test applied honestly
A recommendation with the trade-offs written down
Risk workshops
Run against your actual documents rather than a generic risk taxonomy — which is why the register gets reopened instead of archived.
Facilitated against the contract, programme and design status
Every risk carries an owner, a trigger and a dated mitigation
Cost and programme impact quantified, not rated vaguely
Revisited at agreed intervals, where the value actually sits
Second opinions
Variation claims, delay claims, scope disputes and determinations, assessed on the documents by someone with no stake in the history.
Your position stated plainly, including when it is weaker than you were told
Assessment against the documents actually tendered
The construction analysis your lawyers need in order to advise you
Not legal advice — we are clear about that boundary
Procurement
How the work is packaged decides what falls between the packages
Contractors price what they read
If two of them read a gap and one did not, the cheapest price is not the cheapest project.
Submissions compared to the scope
Not to each other summaries. Exclusions that would return as variations get surfaced before award instead of after.
Packaging before pricing
Package strategy and tenderer selection are decided before anyone is invited to tender, not reverse-engineered afterwards.
Documentation adequacy tested first
If the tender set is not ready, issuing it anyway converts a documentation problem into a commercial one.
Melbourne
Second opinions, priced for this market
Melbourne moves quarterly
Tender coverage, contractor appetite and escalation here shift fast enough that last year’s assumptions mis-price this year’s project. Advice is anchored to what the market is doing now.
Local diligence
Delivery model selection, counterparty checks and health checks calibrated to Victorian conditions and Melbourne subcontractor reality. Working in Melbourne →
Fees
Fixed before the work starts
$12,000Project Health Check — fixed lump sum
Per scopeadvisory and one-off reviews
Project Health Check: $12,000A fixed lump sum. Published, not quoted on request.
Advisory and one-off reviewsQuoted per scope, with the quote fixed before work begins.
No contingent feesNo percentage of anything we save you.
Exclusions stated upfrontStatutory fees, authority charges, third-party consultants, legal advice and formal dispute proceedings are excluded and quoted separately.
Advice you pay a share of is advice with an interest in the answer.