McBains Cooper - Cost Management
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McBains Cooper is a leading professional consultancy, specialising in property, infrastructure and construction, offering a wide range of consulting and design services in the UK, Europe and Latin America

Cost Management

Cost Management is at the very heart of the company. It is with the depth and strength in our expertise and experience that we have developed a wide range of skills to meet the financial and cost control management needs of investors, funders and occupiers.

Our services encompass:

Cost Management and Procurement

  • Cost planning, strategic review and analysis
  • Procurement advice and tender analysis
  • Procurement management
  • Contract negotiations and commitment advice
  • Valuation and final account negotiations
  • Post contract cost management
  • Employers Agency role
  • Receivership and liquidation

Funder / Investor Services

Project Monitoring including:

  • Quantity progress analysis
  • Due diligence reviews including cost, procurement, construction and quality
  • Site and building purchase due diligence analysis
  • Warrantees and novated contract analysis and advice

Risk Management

  • Risk management workshops
  • Production of risk registers, action plans identifying allocation and ownership
  • Risk evaluation and mitigation
  • Ongoing risk review

Value Engineering Services

  • 'What if' analysis
  • Cost in production workshops
  • Value Engineering workshops including full procurement and subcontract -
    value reviews
  • Earned value analysis
  • M4I application of 'cost' management to achieve best value

Litigation and Investigation Support Services

  • Claim and contract disputes resolution, including delay analysis, disruption review and preliminaries restructuring
  • Expert witness
  • Litigation quantum analysis and expert reporting
  • Insurance quantums representation and expert witness
  • Litigation support for construction disputes
  • Arbitration services
  • Construction disputes under the 'Act'

We also offer:

  • Insurance valuations
  • Insurance claims and representation
  • Capital allowance and other revenue advice
  • Cost In use analysis
  • Lift cycle costing and sinking fund analysis / allocation