Good projects can still lose money, usually not through one dramatic mistake, but through small commercial gaps that compound. Applications go in late. Variations move ahead before value is agreed. Orders lag behind starts. CVRs explain the past instead of protecting the future.
Before committing to a price, we provide the commercial input your team needs: from an early estimate through to a fully managed tender, or an independent review of a tender your own team has already prepared. This sits apart from the commercial support during construction and close-out described below.
Six services, each with clear ownership and defined deliverables, in order of increasing involvement: from one-off advice, to a defined commercial task, to retained project support, to wider support across the business. The order reflects responsibility, not automatically a higher fee at every step.
Direct access for practical guidance on payment, variations, notices, subcontract issues, valuations, procurement and difficult commercial conversations.
A structured review of project controls, scored against agreed measures and followed by a concise, prioritised action plan. Available as a one-off review or as recurring monthly monitoring.
A bespoke selection of defined commercial tasks: for example the monthly CVR, payment applications, administering subcontract payments or maintaining the variation register.
Experienced help for an existing team: supporting busy QSs, complex packages and difficult commercial discussions, or covering workload and absence.
Responsibility for the agreed project commercial function, embedded without the permanent overhead.
Your commercial department, built around your workload: consistent reporting, clear responsibility and resource that scales as requirements change.
Useful when a live issue cannot wait: a difficult payment conversation, a notice deadline, a variation dispute. Not a report for the drawer, a straight answer on what to do next.
Where a question turns out to be a contract or claims matter rather than a quick answer, we will say so and set out the options. That work is covered under Construction Contracts & Disputes.
Start with an initial review to establish where a project actually stands. Where it is useful, that becomes a recurring monthly cycle against the same agreed measures, so directors can see how projects and the commercial controls behind them are performing over time rather than at a single moment.
This is a commercial review of projects and controls. It is not a statutory financial audit, and it is not a formal assessment of individual members of staff.
Taking responsibility for specific, agreed pieces of commercial work: not the same as taking over the entire project QS role.
Senior capacity alongside your own QS, rather than in place of them, for the situations that need an extra, experienced pair of hands.
This is the appointment most contractors come to us for. We take responsibility for the agreed project commercial function from mobilisation through to final account, working inside your team alongside the directors, site staff, accounts and consultants.
Contract, risk, budget and reporting
Packages, analysis, negotiation and orders
CVR, cashflow, change, records and notices
Applications, valuations and entitlement
Margin, cash, risk and decisions
Final accounts, retention and liabilities
Focus on delivery with BPH managing the agreed commercial function. We work alongside your directors and project teams, providing consistent reporting, clear responsibility and support that scales with your workload.
Estimating, measured pricing, tender preparation and independent review before committing to a price.
Pre-Construction & TenderingTender and construction programmes, live progress updates, recovery planning and programme analysis when time starts to move.
Programming & Progress ReportingContract review, claims, extensions of time, negotiation, adjudication and commercial dispute support.
Contracts & Disputes