Between Design Team and Contractor. Always.
We sit outside the delivery team, appointed by the client or funder. No design mandate, no contractor relationship. One focus – the accuracy of the cost picture.
What are your needs?
The Gap No One Owns
Design teams focus on design. Contractors focus on margin. Without an independent eye on cost, the commercial picture reflects everyone's interest except yours.
A Position, Not a Service
We do not appear at tender and disappear at handover. We maintain a continuous, independent commercial presence from feasibility through to final account.
Live Cost Intelligence
We attend design reviews to identify uncosted scope. We verify contractor valuations. We track and price changes before they become contractual problems.
Across Every Stage
Feasibility, procurement, construction, final account. We are engaged where the commercial risk is highest - on [high-end residential, mixed-use and phased schemes.
What Independence Means
in Practice
We read across the full model and drawing set. We identify where scope has been assumed rather than defined. We produce a cost picture that client, contractor and funder can all work from – independently verified, consistently maintained.
Our Role
Independent cost oversight from the client side. We attend, review and report without a stake in the outcome of any design or procurement decision.
Our Method
Every valuation verified. Every change priced. Every position traceable to a model element, a drawing reference or a documented assumption.
The Independent Commercial Eye on Every Stage of Your Project.
Client-side only
Procurement, delivery, final account
Feasibility to final account
Senior-level experience
When quantities are established independently, traced to the model and documented from the start, the final account is not a negotiation. It is a reconciliation.
That is the difference between a cost plan that holds and one that does not.
A Cost Plan Is Only as Good
as the Position It Was Built From.
When the person producing your cost data has no relationship with the contractor and no stake in the design, the numbers mean something different. They are not a negotiating position. They are a fact.
That is the difference between cost data that informs decisions and cost data that reflects interests. It is why independent quantity surveying matters from day one.
Sitting Between Design and Contractor.
Always on Your Side.
› Every valuation independently verified
› Every scope gap identified before it becomes a claim
› Every cost position maintained from feasibility to final account
The Commercial Function Your Project Needs.
From Day One.
If your cost plan is built by someone with a stake in the outcome, it is not a cost plan. It is a position. We provide the independent alternative – traceable, auditable and defensible. See how this works across complex phasing projects and mixed-use developments.
Contact With Us!
Office 676,60 Tottenham Court Road,Fitzrovia,LondonW1T 2EW
Call us: 020 3576 2851
Email: office@reltic.co.uk
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