SUBCONTRACTOR SUPPORT
Recover Unpaid Sums. Reduce Commercial Risk.
Payment reduced? Retention withheld? Variations disputed? Get commercial and contractual support to maximise financial recovery on unpaid and disputed sums.
Not Being Paid Properly?
Payment reduced, delayed or withheld? Get a no fee review of your payment position, evidence and recovery options before deciding what to do next.
Where this helps
This may be suitable where you are dealing with:
- Reduced payments
- Under-certified applications
- Withheld retention
- Unpaid variations
- Delayed final accounts
- Deductions or set-offs
- Pay less or payment notice disputes
- Payment applications ignored or delayed
What you receive
Payment Recovery Assessment and Action Plan
You receive a clear action plan setting out:
- Your payment position
- The basis for reduction or non-payment
- The sums potentially recoverable
- The strengths supporting recovery
- The gaps or risks affecting recovery
- The evidence already available
- The evidence still required
- The immediate steps to take
- The recommended recovery route
- The likely recovery timescale
- Whether further action is justified
Commercial Support Without Full Time Employment
Get experienced commercial and contractual advice when required. Avoid the cost of a full time commercial team.
Commercial Protection Retainer
From £1,000/month
Practical commercial and contract support for firms who need reliable monthly protection without employing a full-time commercial team.
What you receive
Monthly Commercial Control Plan
You receive senior commercial input each month to protect cashflow, preserve entitlement and deal with issues before they become harder to recover.
The monthly plan sets out:
- Current commercial issues
- Payment and cashflow risks
- Notice and deadline actions
- Variation and change recovery
- EOT and loss and expense position
- Final account and retention actions
- Subcontract risks or amendments
- Evidence gaps affecting recovery
- Correspondence required
- Escalation options
- Director action points
- Monthly action tracker
Ongoing support includes:
- Payment application and valuation review
- Payment notice and pay less notice support
- Variation and change management
- EOT and loss and expense guidance
- Final account recovery support
- Commercial correspondence drafting
- Senior commercial advice as issues arise
Commercial Partner Service
Bespoke monthly engagement
A deeper level of commercial involvement for firms managing multiple projects, higher-risk contracts or more demanding contractor relationships.
What you receive
Weekly Commercial Partner Review
You receive senior commercial leadership across current projects, helping directors control risk, protect recovery and make better commercial decisions.
The weekly review sets out:
- Project commercial priorities
- Payment and recovery risks
- Current variation and change issues
- EOT, delay and prolongation positions
- Final account and retention strategy
- Contractor negotiation points
- Evidence and record weaknesses
- Dispute warning signs
- Commercial decisions required
- Director action points
- Priority next steps
Enhanced support includes:
- Weekly project commercial reviews
- Director-level commercial advice
- Ongoing risk and recovery tracking
- Strategic contract negotiation support
- Meeting preparation and attendance
- Contractor negotiation support
- Commercial systems and reporting support
- Early dispute intervention
- Priority response and availability
- Ongoing strategic commercial planning
Recover Unpaid Work and Final Accounts
Variations rejected? Retention withheld? Final account delayed? Understand entitlement and pursue the correct recovery route.
Variations, Change & Compensation Events
For unpaid, reduced or rejected change, including instructed works, scope changes, compensation events and disputed variation accounts.
What you receive
Change Recovery Assessment and Action Plan
You receive a clear action plan for pursuing recovery before entitlement is weakened or recovery becomes harder to pursue.
The action plan sets out:
- The change position
- The entitlement basis
- The sums potentially recoverable
- The basis for rejection or under-assessment
- The notice, time-bar or procedural risks
- The risks affecting recovery
- The supporting records available
- The further records or substantiation required
- The quotation or assessment position
- The immediate steps to take
- The recommended recovery route
- Whether further action is justified
Delays, EOT & Loss Recovery
For delay, disruption, access or sequencing issues affecting time, productivity, cost recovery or your contractual position.
What you receive
Delay and Loss Recovery Assessment and Action Plan
You receive a clear action plan to protect your time position, assess cost recovery and address delay issues before records, programme or causation issues weaken recovery.
The action plan sets out:
- The delay or disruption position
- The entitlement basis
- The EOT and prolongation position
- The programme impact position
- The cost recovery position
- Delay, concurrency or causation risks
- The risks affecting recovery
- The supporting records available
- The further records or substantiation required
- The immediate steps to take
- The recommended recovery route
- Whether further action is justified
Final Accounts, Payment & Retention Recovery
For delayed final accounts, reduced payments, withheld retention, disputed deductions and unpaid sums.
What you receive
Final Account and Payment Recovery Action Plan
You receive a clear action plan to pursue unpaid sums, address disputed deductions and progress the final account or payment position.
The action plan sets out:
- The final account or payment position
- The sums potentially recoverable
- The basis for withholding or reduction
- The retention release position
- The deductions, set-offs or contra-charges
- The risks affecting recovery
- The supporting records available
- The further records or substantiation required
- The immediate steps to take
- The recommended recovery route
- The likely recovery timescale
- Whether further action is justified
Control Commercial Processes with AI Workflows
Use controlled AI workflows to reduce manual administration, organise records earlier and improve commercial visibility across tender, contract, payment, change, delay and claims processes.
It helps structure information, identify commercial risks, prepare controlled outputs and support commercial review and decision-making.
Tender, Scope and Contract Formation Workflows
Controlled AI workflows for tender review, scope analysis, qualifications and contract formation risks.
Workflow areas include:
- Tender risk review
- Scope gap identification
- Contract amendment checks
- Qualifications and clarifications
- Obligation and deliverable summaries
- Handover notes for the project team
Commercial judgement, risk acceptance and contract negotiation decisions remain with the responsible bid or commercial lead.
See example AI automated workflowsContract Administration and Notice Control Workflows
Controlled AI workflows for obligations, notices, response periods and contract administration records.
Workflow areas include:
- Obligation tracking
- Notice requirement summaries
- Response period tracking
- Contract administration checklists
- Correspondence and instruction review
- Project record organisation
Notice issue, contractual reliance and commercial decisions remain with the responsible commercial team.
See example AI automated workflowsPayment, Variation and Recovery Workflows
Controlled AI workflows for payment cycles, valuation support, change records and recovery reporting.
Workflow areas include:
- Payment cycle checks
- Valuation substantiation
- Pay less notice review
- Variation and change tracking
- Aged recovery reporting
- Final account record organisation
Recovery decisions, valuation positions and payment strategy remain with the responsible commercial lead.
See example AI automated workflowsDelay, Disruption and Claims Records Workflows
Controlled AI workflows for organising delay, disruption, access, sequencing and claims records.
Workflow areas include:
- Delay event record review
- Access and sequencing records
- Disruption and productivity records
- Programme record organisation
- Claims record schedules
- Chronology and issue summaries
Programme conclusions, causation, entitlement and claims strategy remain with the planner, claims consultant or responsible commercial lead.
See example AI automated workflowsAI Automation Review
Protect Recovery and Entitlement
From £1,000
Identify where AI automation can enhance your commercial processes, improve recovery, reduce manual administration and reduce the risk of incomplete records, omitted notices, non-compliance with deadlines or inadequate substantiation.
What you receive
AI Workflow Suitability, Control and Pilot Plan
You receive a commercially focused plan showing where AI automation can reduce manual work, strengthen recovery and reduce avoidable under-recovery.
It identifies the controls, approval routes and pilot steps required before any workflow is used.
The plan sets out:
- The priority workflows for automation
- The workflows requiring controls or exclusion
- The commercial risks each workflow addresses
- The repeated manual tasks suitable for workflow support
- The source records required
- The outputs each workflow should produce
- The approval route for each output
- The commercial lead responsible for review and approval
- The confidentiality and data-handling controls required
- The staff guidance required before use
- The recommended pilot workflow
- The implementation steps required before any workflow is used
Adjudication Position, Evidence and Strategy
Assess the strength of your position. Organise your evidence. Prepare the referral strategy or response strategy against the adjudication timetable.
Adjudication Strategy & Preparation
Pre-adjudication support where a payment, valuation, final account, delay or entitlement issue may need to be referred, but the dispute, remedy, evidence and adjudication route need to be defined and reviewed before a Notice of Adjudication is served.
What you receive
Adjudication Strategy and Referral Preparation
You receive support to define the dispute, develop the referral strategy and prepare the commercial, contractual and evidential position before a Notice of Adjudication is served.
Preparation support includes:
- The dispute to be referred
- The remedy being sought
- The adjudication route
- The contractual and commercial position
- Jurisdiction or procedural risks
- Notice and crystallisation issues
- The strengths supporting the position
- The risks affecting recovery or defence
- The supporting records available
- The further records or substantiation required
- The referral structure
- The anticipated timetable and preparation requirements
- Settlement or escalation options
- Whether adjudication is justified
Payment & Final Account Adjudications
Support with adjudications involving unpaid applications, reduced payments, withheld retention, disputed deductions, valuation issues and final account balances.
What you receive
Payment and Final Account Adjudication Support
You receive party representative support for payment recovery, final account disputes, retention recovery and valuation issues.
Representative support includes:
- The payment or final account position
- The sums being pursued or disputed
- The notified sum or valuation basis
- The payment notice or pay less notice position
- The basis for withholding or reduction
- The retention release position
- The deductions, set-offs or contra-charges
- The contractual and commercial entitlement position
- The supporting records available
- The further records or substantiation required
- The referral or response structure
- The timetable and submission requirements
- Settlement or negotiation options
- The practical route to recovery or defence
Referring & Responding Party Support
Party representative support for referring or responding parties during adjudication, including strategy, submissions, evidence, timetable management and commercial negotiation support.
What you receive
Referring and Responding Party Representation
You receive practical party representative support to prepare, present or respond to the adjudication case within the required timetable.
Representative support includes:
- Notice of Adjudication support
- Referral or Response preparation
- Reply, Rejoinder or further submission support
- Timetable and submission management
- Dispute and remedy definition
- Jurisdiction and procedural issues
- Entitlement, valuation or delay issues
- Evidence and chronology preparation
- Supporting records review
- Opposing case analysis
- Commercial negotiation support
- Settlement strategy during the adjudication
- Adjudicator communications support
- Final decision and next-step review
Independent Expert Opinion for Disputes
Where payment, valuation, delay, disruption or professional negligence is disputed, the position needs structured analysis.
Quantum Expert Reports
Independent quantum opinion for disputes involving valuation, variations, payment, final account sums, loss and expense, retention, damages, deductions and related financial issues.
What you receive
Quantum Expert Report
You receive an independent expert report addressing the disputed financial position, the sums claimed or disputed, and the valuation or cost basis relied upon.
The report may address:
- The disputed valuation or financial issue
- The sums claimed, disputed or assessed
- The valuation, cost or damages methodology
- The records and substantiation relied upon
- Variation, change or final account sums
- Payment, retention or deduction issues
- Loss and expense or prolongation cost issues
- Damages, set-offs or contra-charges
- Cost causation and calculation issues
- Assumptions, limitations and evidence gaps
- Matters supporting or weakening the opinion
- Issues outside the report scope or expert discipline
Delay Expert Reports
Independent delay opinion for disputes involving delay events, causation, programme impact, critical path, periods of delay, concurrency and time-related issues.
What you receive
Delay Expert Report
You receive an independent expert report addressing the delay position, the programme evidence, the methodology applied and the period of delay assessed.
The report may address:
- The delay events relied upon
- The alleged causes of delay
- The baseline, updated and as-built programmes
- The factual chronology and actual progress
- Critical path and concurrency issues
- The delay analysis methodology
- The period of delay assessed
- Time-related issues for EOT or delay claims
- The delay records relied upon
- Assumptions, limitations and evidence gaps
- Matters supporting or weakening the opinion
Disruption Expert Reports
Independent disruption opinion for disputes involving productivity loss, inefficient working, access constraints, sequencing issues, labour or resource impact and disrupted progress.
What you receive
Disruption Expert Report
You receive an independent expert report addressing the disruption position, the productivity evidence, the methodology applied and the link between disruptive events and claimed loss.
The report may address:
- The disruptive events relied upon
- The alleged effect on productivity
- Inefficient working or loss of productivity
- Labour, plant or resource impact
- Access, sequencing or workface constraints
- The disruption methodology
- Site records and productivity evidence
- The link between events and claimed loss
- Alternative causes or unaffected work
- Non-compensable factors
- Assumptions, limitations and evidence gaps
- Matters supporting or weakening the opinion
Professional Negligence Expert Reports
Independent opinion for professional negligence disputes involving quantity surveying, valuation, certification, payment assessment, final account handling, contract administration and professional practice issues.
What you receive
Professional Negligence Expert Report
You receive an independent expert report addressing the professional role, the appointment or scope of services, the alleged acts or omissions, and the professional practice issues within the expert's discipline.
The report may address:
- The professional role and appointment
- The scope of services relied upon
- Professional practice within the expert's discipline
- Valuation, assessment or certification issues
- Payment assessment or final account handling
- Contract administration issues
- Notice, record or advice issues
- Alleged acts or omissions within the expert's field
- Technical causation or loss issues
- Assumptions, limitations and evidence gaps
- Matters supporting or weakening the opinion
- Matters outside the expert's discipline
Builder Dispute, Extra Cost or Delay?
Understand what is owed, what can be challenged and what route is available before further cost is incurred.
Project Support Retainer
Developer & Renovation Project Support
From £1,000/month
For extensions, refurbishments, renovations and small developments where disputed costs, delayed works, unclear scope, workmanship issues or builder payment demands need clear commercial control.
What you receive
Project Cost and Builder Dispute Support
You receive ongoing commercial support to review the project cost position, identify what appears payable, what can be challenged, and set out the next commercial steps before further payments are made or the dispute escalates.
Support may include:
- The project cost position
- The payment or invoice issue
- The quote, contract or scope position
- The extra cost or variation position
- The work completed against the sums claimed
- The delay or completion position
- Costs arising from disputed workmanship, defects or snagging
- The final account or retention position
- The supporting records available
- The further records or substantiation required
- Payment, withholding or escalation risks
- The recommended commercial response
- The negotiation, settlement or escalation route
International Construction Claim or Dispute?
Prepare, assess or defend entitlement, delay, disruption, variation and quantum positions before negotiation, settlement or formal proceedings.
International Claims & Dispute Support
Claims Preparation, Defence and Expert Support
Support for international construction projects where entitlement, delay, disruption, variation, acceleration or quantum issues need to be prepared, assessed or defended before negotiation, settlement or formal dispute proceedings.
What you receive
International Claim, Defence and Dispute Support
You receive commercial, contractual, claims and expert support to prepare, assess or defend the claim position, structure the supporting records and identify the appropriate commercial or dispute route.
Support may include:
- The claim or defence position
- The contractual entitlement basis
- Notice and procedural compliance issues
- Variation, change or acceleration issues
- EOT, prolongation or disruption issues
- Quantum and cost substantiation
- Claim narrative or rebuttal structure
- Records, schedules and evidence gaps
- Expert report requirements
- Arbitration, adjudication, DAB or DAAB preparation
- Settlement and negotiation options
- The recommended commercial or dispute route
Relevant Commercial and Dispute Matters
Review payment, delay, disruption and valuation matters where recovery routes and claim positions were assessed.
Payment Notice Recovery
Payment notice analysis and recovery strategy for an M&E subcontractor facing withheld payment.
Substantial seven-figure recovery route identified.
Delay and Disruption Expert Report
Delay and disruption expert report for a joinery subcontractor affected by access, sequencing and productivity issues.
Substantial recovery claim assessed and supported.
Quantum Expert Report
Quantum expert report for an M&E subcontractor on a disputed valuation, variations and deductions.
Mid to high six-figure recovery position assessed and supported.
Need an Independent View?
Understand your position before taking the next step on payment, variation, retention, delay or adjudication issues.