Commercial advisory and platform services · Australia
Win the work.
Deliver it well.
Most subcontractors and suppliers cannot justify a full-time commercial team. We are that team, engaged only for as long as you need us.
The job is not finished when you win it
Claim lodged
Bid
Strategy, pricing, submission
QueuedContract
Review and departures
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Progress claims on time
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Cash collected
QueuedThe gap we fill
Good trades lose money on paperwork, not on the work.
No bid function
Tenders get answered at night, by the owner, around the actual job. Win rates suffer and the good opportunities get skipped.
Terms signed unread
Retention, liquidated damages, and defects liability are accepted as issued, because there is nobody to review them clause by clause.
Cash arrives late
Claims go in without the right reference dates and supporting detail, and the money sits with someone else for another month.
What we do
One method across the whole commercial lifecycle
Take a single pillar or the full run. Each engagement is sealed, so your prices, positions, and project detail stay with you.
Win the work
From opportunity to submitted bid.
Bid strategy
Win pillars, an early bid or no-bid gate, and an explicit fixed-price exposure test before you commit resources.
Tender assessment
Element-by-element technical assessment, risk register, and stakeholder map, so the response answers what is actually being scored.
Contract review
Clause-by-clause commercial review producing a schedule of departures, a position on each risk, and a one-page summary.
Tender response
Win strategy, capability statement, returnable schedules, and a submission checklist that closes out every requirement.
Deliver it well
From award to handover.
Financial modelling
Take-off discipline, margin and breakeven sensitivity, and rise-and-fall logic tested against fixed-price terms.
Contract administration
Notices, variations, extensions of time, and correspondence run to a register instead of an inbox.
Scope control
A scope of supply checklist that flushes out the assumptions before they turn into unpaid work.
Win to handover
The commitments made in the bid carried into delivery, so the people building it know what was promised.
Get paid
From claim to cleared funds.
Progress claims
Claims built to the security of payment framework in your state, with reference dates and supporting detail correct the first time.
Payment schedules
Responses read and assessed against what was claimed, with the options and timing set out plainly.
Cash collection
A structured escalation sequence that keeps the commercial relationship intact while the money moves.
Retention recovery
Retention and defects milestones tracked to date, so releases are claimed instead of forgotten.
The platform
The advice comes with the tools that produce it
Every method we run is built as a working tool or template. You keep them, configured to your business, so the discipline stays after the engagement ends.
How we work
Four steps, in order, every time
Scope call
We look at your pipeline, your current terms, and where cash is getting stuck. No charge, no obligation.
Proposal
A written scope with the deliverables, the turnaround, and the fee. You know exactly what you are buying.
Engagement
We run the method and hand back finished work: strategy, departures, models, claims. Not slide decks.
Handover
The tools and templates stay with you, set up for your business, with the procedures to run them.
Who it’s for
Subcontractors and suppliers under $50 million turnover
We work across the major infrastructure and building pipeline nationally. The method is trade-neutral, so it holds whatever you supply or install.
- You bid to tier-one and government principals but have no dedicated bid team.
- The owner or the estimator is writing tender responses after hours.
- You are signing head-contract terms you have not had reviewed.
- Your claims are being short-paid or paid late, and nobody is chasing them properly.
- You want the systems to stay in the business, not the consultant.
What we are not
We provide commercial advice, not legal advice. Contract review looks at commercial risk and negotiating position. Legal questions go to a qualified lawyer, and we will tell you when you have reached one.
We do not price your work for you or carry your risk. We give you the analysis, the position, and the paperwork so your decision is an informed one.
Engagement
Three ways to work with us
Fees are set to the scope and quoted in writing before anything starts. Ask for the current fee schedule.
Per engagement
Project work
A single tender, contract review, or financial model. Fixed fee, stated turnaround.
- One bid, end to end
- Contract review and departures
- Pricing and sensitivity model
Ongoing
Monthly retainer
A standing commercial function across your pipeline, at an agreed monthly capacity.
- Pipeline triage and bid gating
- Contract review as tenders land
- Claims and collection oversight
Platform
Tools subscription
The toolset configured to your business, with the procedures and support to run it.
- Bid tracker and pipeline
- Contract and claims toolkits
- Templates and procedures
Have a tender on the desk right now?
Send us the scope and the close date. We will tell you plainly whether it is worth bidding, before you spend a week on it.