Our Consulting Expertise

At Fire Horse26 Ltd, we specialize in delivering tailored consulting solutions that enable your business to excel. Our team of seasoned consultants collaborates with you to uncover challenges and develop innovative strategies that align with your unique goals. We offer a wide range of services including strategic advisory, operational improvement, and risk management, all designed to enhance your organization's performance and growth.

Services

Independent Contract and Commercial Assurance

Are you new to the NEC form of contract?
Has your project 'grown legs' and feels to be running away from you?

Many projects seem to run away from us when challenges occur. The industry is know for crisis management and we seem to forget the foundation at which the project was based on.

Fire Horse26 offers a full / partial independent contract and commercial assurance audit to ensure you are not straying from the contract and putting your company at risk in doing so.

This assurance includes;

Contract Review
Risks & Opportunities document
Commercial Assurance audit
Project defined cost audit
Contract deliverables audit and tracker formation
Contract status review - how far has it moved from initial formation
Programme Review
Written report issued on completion

Commercial Review - Snapshot

Unsure if you and your team are meeting the commercial deliverables?
Is your client disallowing costs in their monthly assessments which does not seem fair?
Are you covering all commercial bases to ensure your entitled recovery is met?

Fire Horse26 offers an idependent high-level commercial review / snapshot on your commercial account for projects up to the value of £1 million at any point in the project marking out what you are doing right and where your risks lie in terms of recovery.

This review includes;

Review on the latest monthly assessment in relation to the contract
High-level review of the contract notices
Highlight what you are doing right and what needs further action
Next steps
Written Report issued on completion.
48 hour turnaround time!!!

Book now for only £410.00

Independent Cost Assurance Audit

Companies delivering projects under the NEC Target cost and cost plus contracts face increasing pressure to demonstrate cost transparency and expenditure. Fire Horse26 offers 100% objectivity when supporting their clients with reimbursable and open-book contracts, and with 25 years in construction we help companies draw on their cost systems to offer clear visibility on cost to meet contract requirements, reduce risk and improve commercial outcomes.

Fire Horse26 audit includes:

Labour rate verification
Plant rate verification
Material reviews
Overhead assessment
Fee calculations
Defined Cost reviews
Open book verification
Duplicate cost identification
Final report and recommendations

Please note that these audits are contract specific only.

NEC Commercial Support

Fire Horse26 has extensive dealings with the NEC form of contract and understand that contract deliverables can be daunting as they are extensive. We offer an immersive and/ or passive range of support to suit your needs and can cover all aspects of commercial management or part thereof, i.e.

Compensation Events
Early Warnings
Defined Cost
Forecasting
Cost verification
Payment assessments / applications
Risk management
Commercial and contract mentoring
Client-side commercial advice
Project Setup
Peer Reviews
Client meeting attendance
Tracking of contract deliverables.
Issuing and managing contract notices in the stipulated contract timeframes.
Ensuring the contract is being adhered to.
Embedded NEC QS Support – part‑time or full‑time, remote or site‑based.

Contract Provisions & Risk Review

We ensure a full understanding of your contract requirements are broken down in an 'easy to understand' format and include an annex of where your risks and opportunities lie at tender stage, precontract stage and during the contract works to ensure you are not compromised. We can proactively track contract deliverables whilst offering guidance to your project team on ways to streamline project delivery and reduce risk where possible.

NEC contract amendments
Commercial governance
Payment mechanisms
Defined Cost clauses
Compensation Events
Record-keeping requirements
Audit rights
Fee structures
Cost recovery provisions
Commercial reporting requirements
Risk Management through project progression

Commercial Membership

So often, companies not so familiar with the NEC contract need an independent helping hand or require a sounding board to ensure their understanding of things are correct, or perhaps they need a second pair of eyes to review certain aspects of a tender, project, account, compensation event, risk etc.

Fire Horse26 offers an annual membership for 'on-hand' project or general commercial support available throughout the year.

Services included in membership:

Telephone and email advice
Contract reviews
Tender submission review
On-hand NEC guidance
Drafting of contract notices
Commercial problem solving
Access to templates
Priority response
Annual health check

Bronze Membership (only £850 per month)

Up to 16 hours Monthly Support Hours
5% off other Fire Horse26 Services

Silver Membership (only £1,200 per month)

Up to 24 hours Monthly Support Hours
10% off other Fire Horse26 Services

Gold Membership (only £1,530 per month)

Up to 32 hours Monthly Support Hours
15% off other Fire Horse26 Services

Platinum Membership (only £2,150 per month)

Up to 48 hours Monthly Support Hours
Includes your annual independent cost assurance audit
20% off other Fire Horse26 Services

Terms and conditions apply

Independent Commercial Assurance for Major Infrastructure Projects