Every quote, one contact.
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.
Several quotes, on the same scope
One brief goes out to a set of vetted contractors at once. What comes back is a comparison rather than a number, because they all priced the same thing at the same time against the same assumptions.
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 several vetted contractors at once, each one already checked on grading, capacity and delivery record before they ever see your job.
You compare like for like
Same scope, same assumptions, priced side by side. The spread is the useful part, and it is the part you never see when quotes arrive a fortnight apart against different scopes.
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.
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.