Procurement is the expensive part.
The building is the easy bit to price. What costs you is the month spent finding people, the fortnight spent making their numbers comparable, and the year spent living with whichever one you picked.
Sourcing
Finding contractors who are free, capable and actually interested in a job this size.
Comparing
Three prices against three different scopes is not a comparison, it is a guess.
Carrying it
Whoever you appoint, the risk of the pick stays with you for the whole programme.
What you get
Four reasons the
number comes down.
One brief, priced by the panel
One brief goes to the vetted contractors who fit it, all pricing the same scope at the same time against the same assumptions. Arabella does the comparison. What reaches you is one quote from one company, already tested against the others.
A price that has been tested
Competing contractors who know they are being compared price differently to a contractor who knows they are the only one being asked. That difference is the whole reason to run it this way.
A standard that holds after appointment
Everyone on the panel was checked on grading, capacity and delivery record before they saw your job, and they stay on it on the strength of how the last one went. Nobody is coasting on the introduction.
Programme pressure that works for you
Contractors in the network are competing for the next award as well as this one, so speed and handover quality are worth something to them. That is a better incentive than a penalty clause.
How a job runs
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One brief in, one contact throughout, and a comparison you can put in front of a board.
You brief it once
Scope, programme, site constraints and the budget you are working to. Captured properly, once, instead of re-explained to every contractor who calls back.
It goes out to the panel
The same scope reaches multiple vetted contractors matched specifically to what the job needs, each one already checked on grading, capacity and delivery record before they ever see it.
We compare like for like
Same scope, same assumptions, priced side by side inside Arabella. The spread is the useful part, and it is what you never get when quotes arrive a fortnight apart against different scopes. You get the one that survived it.
One contact, through to handover
One number, one contract, one accountability. If a trade changes on site, that is our problem to solve, not another procurement round for you to run.
You brief it once
Scope, programme, site constraints and the budget you are working to. Captured properly, once, instead of re-explained to every contractor who calls back.
What it costs you, and when.
For a body corporate, an estate or a property manager the commercial terms are the same on every job, so they are written here rather than left to the quote.
One quote, one price
You see one quote from one company, priced against the scope you set. Arabella's margin is inside that price. There is no fee on top, no retainer, and no charge for the quote or the site visit.
85% on award, 15% on completion
A job is awarded on an 85% deposit and no contractor starts before it has cleared. The final 15% is invoiced when you have signed the work off, with whatever certificate the trade requires: an electrical CoC, a PIRB plumbing certificate, a gas CoC.
Two working days
A brief sent through the site gets a reply within two working days: a site visit booked, or the questions we need answered first. Quote windows run one to four weeks, set by how urgent the job is and when your trustees meet.
One point of contact
Same six trades.
One relationship.
You appoint every trade yourself.
Six sets of terms, six sets of references to chase, and six chances for a gap between packages to become your problem on site.