Services
Quantity Surveying (QS)
Our chartered and expert professionals deliver a comprehensive and wide range of quantity surveying services to clients from inception to completion of the project.
With a team of dedicated service excellence and a sincere professional commitment, you can “ENJOY THE PEACE OF MIND” the moment you appoint Al Rayyan Consultancy as your quantity surveyor.
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Preparation of bills of Quantities based on the agreed method of measurements through drawings and specifications.
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Preparation of tender documentation that comprises of the following will be issued to the lead consultant/client for compiling/issuing a tender package for tendering.
- A.Invitation to tender: Invitation to Tender letter, form of acknowledgement, confidentiality undertaking
- B.Volume I- Conditions of Contract: Instruction to Tenderers (ITI), form of Agreement, forms of bonds, appendix to tender, the agreement, general and particular Conditions of Contract, schedules.
- C.Volume II- Specifications, Appendices
- D.Volume III -Pricing preambles and Bills of Quantities(BOQ).
- E.Volume IV- Drawings.
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Prepare priced BOQ (Fair Price Estimate), prior to receiving tender packages.
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Tender stage assistance with tender queries and circulars including preparation of Tender Addendums related to Conditions of Contract and Bills of Quantities.
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Prepare detailed commercial tender evaluation reports (Tender analysis report) on the tenders received and advise to clients the commercial compliance of bidders for the project.
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Draft Letters of award for issuance by the Client.
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Review proposed Contract documents and notices of award to ensure conformity with tender. Compile all relevant tender, Contract documents for final sign up.
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Assist the Lead Consultant/ Client in their negotiations with the various contractors and suppliers.
Contract Administration
Contract administration comprises the decision-making and timely flow of information to enable the accomplishment of the project as per the contract, which includes the examination, review, and action on the project.
Our well-experienced contract administrator’s/quantity surveyor’s ready to fulfill your project requirements in the post-contract stage on a full-time or part-time basis.
Change Management
Administrate variations including contractual entitlement of variations and value variations in accordance with Contract.
Prepare Request for Changes (RFC’s), value the variations and obtain approval from the client/lead consultant.
Evaluate the Contractor’s submission of variations and provide approval in compliance with the client’s change management procedures.
Update the client from time to time on frequent changes to the project.
Payment
Verify advance, interim and final payment applications received from the Contractor, evaluate as necessary and make recommendations for payments to the Employer
Verify priced statements submitted by the Contractor in respect of any work carried out on a day work basis with substantiation and advise client appropriately.
Deal with notices of the project including but not limited to claim notices, delay notices, change notices and any other notices in accordance with the Contract.
Update the client from time to time on frequent changes to the project.
Bonds & Insurance
Commercial content review of Contractors submission of bonds, guarantees, insurances and monitor in accordance with Contract.
Project Financial Reporting
Advise the client from time to time on the commercial performance of the project through the Project Financial Report.
Final Account & Project Closeout
Prepare final accounts incorporating all re-measurements (if any), variations, increased cost allowances, value of all claims.
Ensure all recoveries are adjusted as necessary in accordance with the Contract.
Issue final payment certificate in accordance with the Contract.
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Dispute Management and Claims
Claims and disputes are an intrinsic part of construction and often considered to be a daily distinctive of the construction industry. Construction claims and disputes occur frequently, affecting job sites, projects, schedules, workers, and employers.
We understand it and, therefore, offer experienced, highly skilled claim specialist services to the client, while project stakeholders are frustrated on the project.
Construction contract claims are complex in nature and require detailed knowledge of the industry, the contract documents and the facts. This is where ARC can help
Fact Finding Report: Review in detail the dispute in line with contract documents and compliance with project specifications and assets, and verify contractual grounds and monetary entitlement of a stakeholder in the project of the disputes.
Provide third-party, impartial peer review for the concerned dispute that is in line with the law of the land and contract agreement.
Our in-depth knowledge of these factors enables us to prepare a robust claim submission. This knowledge is invaluable in the counterclaim, defence, counterdefense submissions, and negotiation of a claim. We stand on our review based on
- Contractual analysis
- Quantum analysis
- Cause and effect analysis
- Critical path analysis
- Change analysis
- Retrospective delay analysis
Assist lawyers in the proceedings of Arbitration and litigation and associated Hearings while providing advice and compilation of documents.
Assist in agreement on settlements in terms of monetary disputes and prepare supplemental agreements (SA’s), memoranda of understanding (MOU’s), and amendments to the contracts.
Cost Planning, Cost Control & Cost Management
We have a proven track record of saving our clients time and money while preserving project quality through our proactive approach to cost management. We plan, control, and manage project costs from inception to successful completion.
Initiate budgets and prepare preliminary estimates for clients based on the planning information from the lead client’s/lead consultant brief for the whole development.
Develop formats for presentation of future cost estimates throughout design stages (appraisal, concept, schematic, and detailed design stages) for lead consultant/client approval.
Prepare cost targets and closely monitor and advise on every stage of project development to ensure the approved target construction budget is met.
Prepare cost reports for every stage of design development.
Advise clients in every stage of project development about the cost.
Prepare pre-tender estimates based on the design proposals.
Project Cost Auditing
Project cost auditing is to give clients a real-time datum of costs involved and forecasted impacts of the risks to the projects. Our expert team of professionals take this opportunity to verify in depth the details and provide proper status and corrective measures to the distressed clients.
Evaluate the deliverables that are met as per the clients cost allocations and ensure clients project objectives are met.
Project costs re-conciliation, while despaired projects need untraceable expenditures and generate appropriate mechanisms of tracking costs.
Propose and implement alternative methods of evaluating existing site conditions based on on-site surveys.
Identify project risks that caused budget constraints for the business.
Re-evaluate the project stakeholder’s positions in terms of payables, claims, scopes and disputes.
Prepare reports to clients and advise on the outcomes of the audit in order to enhance the project cost performance. This includes appropriate expenditure of resources and budget allocations to the project, identifying priorities, corrective measures, and preventive actions that help to prevent the future recurrence of similar issues and to provide successful project outcomes.
Building Survey
The building survey is to provide the clients about the project/s current status of work done while abandoning or terminating or dispute on hold projects. We provide a real-time datum of the accomplished progress of the works and our team able to convey to the client the forecasted outcome of the project.
Collect details of scopes that are obligated and fulfilled by the stakeholders of the project and assess cost involvement of the obligations fulfilled.
Prepare a comprehensive assessment of costs for the work done.
Prepare a BOQ, if necessary, if the Bills of Quantity are not available.
Prepare a comprehensive report on the status of the project costs at the time of termination or abandonment that would give a sense of the project to the clients.
Specification
ARC assist the Client/ Consultant in obtaining (out sourced) any type of specification as per project requirements whether it can be normal building projects or special landmark projects.
Risk Management
ARC is satisfied with its Clients providing effective risk management procedure, which is associated with robust risk assessment and effective risk mitigation procedures.
ARC shall have engaged themselves as part of the Client construction team, and are able to quantify risks in terms of effect, likelihood and cost. Further, we provide the strategies by which to mitigate those risks.
Our vast expertise enables us to provide insight look up and advice accordingly, including in relation to risks arising from the unknown, intangible, and unforeseen.