OUR SERVICES

We establish bulletproof commercial, contractual, and financial foundations. By auditing design assumptions, stress-testing budgets, and building clean risk-allocation matrices early, we prevent downstream margin slippage. We actively support our clients with precision BoQ preparation, granular cost planning, competitive tender analysis, and upfront value-engineering solutions, enabling project teams to start construction from the strongest possible financial and operational position.

True front-end protection requires aligning cost benchmarks with rigorous schedule assurance. We dive deep into the initial planning mechanics, performing exhaustive tender programme reviews, deliverability assessments, and baseline strategy validation. By driving early programme development, defining clear interface milestones, and tracking design-deliverable logic integrity, we ensure that potential change-impacts and schedule risks are completely quantified before you legally commit to the asset.

Core Focus: Early feasibility, value engineering, risk profiling, baseline schedule assurance, and initial budget validation.

We design and deliver robust procurement strategies that match market realities. From preparing comprehensive Bills of Quantities (BoQs) to handling competitive tender evaluations and high-stakes contract negotiations, we lock in cost certainty at day one.

Core Focus: BoQ preparation, tender validation, procurement structuring, and contract drafting.

We act as your embedded commercial engine during active construction. By administering contract mechanisms in real-time, firm change management, and maintaining live cost-to-complete forecasting, we shield you from budget blowouts.

Core Focus: Contract administration, EOT and time management, progress claims, live cost tracking, and variation management.

We remove the tail-end headaches of project delivery. Our team aggressively manages final account negotiations, resolves subcontractor variations, defect rectifications and provides accurate financial close-outs that secure your final margins.

Core Focus: Final account negotiation, defect commercial tracking, and tax depreciation scheduling.

When commercial friction turns into a formal dispute, we provide the definitive forensic analysis required to support your position. We combine elite quantity surveying with advanced forensic delay and programme analysis – turning a fragile request for cost recompense into an unassailable, ironclad claim demonstrating all of the things the courts would want to see, cause – effect – entitlement and associated costs. We specialise in expert services, delay and disruption mapping, quantum calculations, and preparing bulletproof positions capable of standing up in high-stakes negotiations, adjudication, arbitration or legally scrutiny.

Core Focus: Forensic delay analysis, variation disputes, Security of Payment (SOPA) advisory, and expert witness support.

Turn a slow, manual progress tracking cycle into a fast, auditable asset. Our proprietary Project Controls as a Service (PCaaS) cloud platform automates time-consuming progress collection while keeping expert planners firmly in control. By capturing field-level, time-stamped, and immutable data, we give project leaders near-real-time executive dashboards and an unassailable evidentiary record that naturally justifies Extensions of Time (EoT) and prevents disputes before they manifest.

Core Focus: Automated progress collection, planner-governed write-back, AWS-backed time-stamped audit trails, and early-warning delay analytics.

For contractors and developers who need elite quantity surveying, contract administration, and cost planning support without the overhead of full-time executive hires. iCOST Direct grants you instantaneous, subscription-backed access to senior commercial consultants exactly when your project pipeline demands it.