Our service

PT Projects offers full Quantity Surveying and Project Management Services including:

Project Evaluation Services
Cost Planning and Services Relating to Design Economics
Procurement, Tendering and Contractual Arrangements
Post-Contract Financial Control and Reporting
Contract Practice and Administration
Programming and Planning
Risk Management Services
Sustainability Services
Due Diligence Services
Corporate Recovery and Insolvency

Project Evaluation Services

• Providing cost data for development appraisals particularly in respect of construction costs
• Assisting with production of development appraisals
• Carrying out life cycle cost exercises in relation to an appraisal
• Assisting with value and risk management exercises in relation to an appraisal

Cost Planning and Services Relating to Design Economics

• Producing estimates and cost plans
• Initial
• Schematic
• Detailed
• Carrying out life cycle costing exercises
• Preparing cashflows and cost to completion assessments
• Applying value engineering processes
• Obtaining quotations to verify estimates and further define cost plans
• Reporting and forecasting costs for different procurement routes, construction and design solutions
• Obtaining data relating to comparative costs of different construction techniques, project locations, and other variables
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Procurement, Tendering and Contractual Arrangements

• Producing pricing documents such as bills of quantities, schedules of activities/works, schedule of rates or contract sum analyses

• Managing and carrying out tendering and negotiation processes:
• single, two stage, and electronic tendering
• Producing tender documentation:
• letters of invitation, forms of tender, health & safety and design documentation, and contractual details
• Providing advice in relation to procurement route including managing and carrying out the tendering and negotiation processes
• Traditional – single stage
• Traditional – two stage
• Negotiated
• Design and build
• Term and serial contracting
• Construction management
• Management contracting
• Providing advice in relation to general contractual provisions such as
• Letters of intent
• Insurances
• Retentions
• Bonds
• Liquidated and ascertained damages
• Early possession
• Practical completion
• Production and collation of relevant contract documentation, contractual provisions, and management of completion of procurement route
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Post Contract Financial Control and Reporting

• Carrying out the contractual mechanisms and procedures relevant to the financial management aspects of the project such as
• Change procedures
• Valuations
• Loss and expense

• Negotiating and agreeing the value of changes and costs for provisional sums
• Assessment of contractors applications
• Review of quotations
• Re-measurement and pricing as required
• Negotiation of claimed costs
• Assessment of monies due in relation to Final accounts
• Measured works
• Provisional sums
• Changes and variations
• Loss and expense

• Forecasting, managing, and reporting project costs during construction phase
• Review of construction information to identify changes
• Assessment of proposed and instructed changes
• Production of regular reports
• Managing provisional sums / contingencies / risk allowances
• Review of quotations received and costs submitted relating to provisional sums
• Review of contingency and risk allowances with client and design team to adjust according to status of project
• Production of regular reports
• Using cashflows for financial management
• Monitoring of anticipated and actual expenditure in order to monitor progress
• Updating of cashflows to assist client with financial management of project
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Contract Practice and Administration

• Issuing instructions
• Dealing with payment provisions
• Implementing and managing change control procedures
• Involvement with dispute avoidance and resolution of disputes
• Dealing with completion and possession issues
• Issuing certificates
• Assessing entitlement to extension of time
• Assessing entitlement for loss and expense
• Advising all parties of their contractual rights and obligations
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Programming and planning

• Formulating and reporting on a project programme
• Reporting financial forecast expenditure
• Identifying the impact of contractual provisions
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Risk Management Services

• Contributing towards the identification of risk and strategies to mitigate it
• Advising on the appropriate procurement route in relation to the client’s attitude to risk
• Recognising and advising on the appropriate methodologies and approach to risk on a project
• Taking ownership of the risk register and advising on appropriate risk mitigation strategies
• Applying techniques to quantify risk and advising clients on the appropriate level of contingency
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Sustainability Services

• Carrying out capital cost and value engineering exercises to determine the impact of sustainability issues on design and construction processes
• Carrying out life cycle cost exercises which take account of sustainability issues
• Interpreting environmental reports and giving reasoned advice on the financial impact and programme implications on a project
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Due Diligence Services

• Reviewing development appraisals, specialist reports and checking statutory and other approvals
• Check compliance with loan agreements and agreements to lease
• Analysing the suitability of procurement strategies and contract documentation
• Interrogating price data
• Establishing suitability of project programmes, quality control procedures and health and safety arrangements
• Checking suitability and appointments of project team
• Analysing project and construction risks
• Monitoring progress against planned programmes
• Reviewing interim valuations for draw-down
• Reviewing final accounts
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Corporate Recovery and Insolvency

• Undertaking valuations and notional final accounts in relation to an insolvency on a project
• Giving advice and taking action to facilitate the completion of a project where insolvency has occurred
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Undertaking work in support of an insolvency practitioner