Quantity Surveying
Easton Bevins’ quantity surveying (also known as cost consultancy) services focus on ensuring that clients and contractors are getting value for money and helping protect them from the uncertainties of the construction industry.
We offer a number of quantity surveying, or cost consultancy, services including, consultant/client quantity surveying, principal contractor quantity surveying and subcontractor quantity surveying.
Our knowledgeable quantity surveyors have worked on a diverse range of projects and can assist clients and contractors at any stage in the construction cycle.
Principal Contractor/Subcontractor Quantity Surveying
Tendering
Acting as the principal contractor quantity surveyor our experienced estimators can provide tendering services to support the principal contractor. This can help secure fresh opportunities within sectors such as social housing, as well as for private and specialist sectors such as fire compartmentation, new builds and refurbishments.
Contract delivery
Our quantity surveyors will analyse contract documentation and attend pre-tender meetings, assess procurement and estimating, and prepare tender documentation for submission. This allows us to spot potential opportunities, or risks, for each tender and help ensure the principal contractor submits an accurate, competitive tender return, thus safeguarding the tendering process.
Our principal contractor/subcontractor quantity surveying tendering services include;
- Attend pre-tender meeting with client to review tender opportunity & tender documentation
- Collaborate with client to procure tender packages to agreed subcontractor supply chain, including all necessary information
- Review tender and draft contract documentation, feedback points of interest and potential risks for client to consider
- Visit the site (if required) to obtain understanding of the scope of works, site access and any site risks that may affect the tender
- Cost assessment of subcontractor and supplier quotations and estimates, advise client on submissions following analysis
- Produce draft cost preliminary and schedule of works to present to client for review, agree tender margin for submission
- Fill out and submit all commercial tender documentation to client contractor for their submission
Consultant/Client Quantity Surveying
By representing clients on a project we can assist them at every stage of the construction cycle.
Our consultancy quantity surveying services include;
- Preparing budgets and estimates
- Supporting the client’s procurement strategies
- Tender analysis and producing tender reports
- Construction cost management from inception to completion
- On-site presence as required to engage with relevant parties and attend progress meetings
- Live construction project cost management including valuation and assessments of contractor claims
- Cashflow forecasts
- Value management and value engineering
- Contract administration and employer’s agent services