Commercial Advisory

Client-side project management for developers, public agencies, and asset owners.

This is where you put the little expanded sting, it should sit about a sentence and a half, maybe two?

Most owner's-rep work is reporting. The contractor reports up, the consultant relays it sideways, the client signs something. Occasionally useful. Rarely valuable.

We run client-side project management as if we were the contractor's commercial team — same disciplines, same speed, same standards of evidence — but on your behalf. The result is a project where the client knows where it stands every week, the contractor is held to account against the contract they actually signed, and the surprises arrive small and early instead of large and late.

From feasibility through handover, or any segment in between. Single throat to choke.

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Client-side project management.

Client-side PM

End-to-end project management on behalf of asset owners, developers and public agencies. We hold the procurement, the budget, the programme, the risk register, and the relationship with the contractor and consultant team. The client gets one number to call, and one position to trust.

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Programme management.

Programme Management

Realistic baselines. Honest float. Defensible entitlement when the programme moves. We read schedules the way a builder reads them, not the way software reports them — looking for the path, the buffers, the resource conflicts, and the early warning signs that something downstream is about to slip.

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Procurement strategy.

Procurement strategy

Single-stage, two-stage, ECI, target-cost, alliance, design-and-build. The wrong procurement model can cost more than the wrong contractor. We help pick a model that fits the project's design maturity, the market's appetite, and the risk you're actually willing to carry — not the risk the standard advice says you should.

  • Procurement model selection and rationale paper

  • Tender packaging strategy and contractor shortlist

  • Tender evaluation, normalisation and award recommendation

  • Contract negotiation support alongside legal counsel

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Contract administration

Contract administration.

Engineer-to-the-Contract and Superintendent roles under NZS 3910, 3915, 3917 and FIDIC. Even-handed, evidence-led, willing to issue determinations rather than punt them. We've sat on the contractor side of these decisions for a decade — we know which calls hold up and which don't.