BIDDING

You may benefit the most in engaging us early on by incurring the least cost for our services while optimizing the prospect for the project’s success.  To identify and solve problems before they surface, PGI can assist you with:

• Establishing a master plan for project’s execution

• Constructability reviews of bid documents to assure that bids meet the project’s objective

• Devising overall performance strategy

• Reviewing bid estimates and alternates

• Assessing and curtailing risks

PRE-CONSTRUCTION

In consolidating the project’s team and finalizing the details, you must be vigilant in defining and containing your risks. To optimize success at the post-award stage, we can assist you with:

• Negotiating and preparing contracts

• Coordinating and negotiating schedule, value-engineering items and schedule-of-values

• Selecting sub-contractors and major vendors

• Evaluating budget against schedule-of-values

• Establishing procedures to facilitate meetings and reporting

• Addressing submittal and procurement of long-lead items

• Creating resource-loaded CPM schedules

EXECUTION

Trouble-free projects are unfortunately rare.  To assure proper and timely decision making for most other projects, we can assist you with:

• Setting up and implementing an effective administration program

• Integrating control systems to meet schedule, budget and quality criteria

• Expediting information and approval flow

• Evaluating and pricing change orders

• Updating CPM schedule and developing fragnets for changes

• Suggesting means and methods to work around problems to avoid delay and disruption, and strategies for recovery

• Avoiding, mitigating and resolving claims

• Verifying that payment is commesurate with actual progress

• Adhering to the payment schedule to assure positive cash flow

• Overseeing, calibration, testing and startup

• Creating procedures to facilitate contract close-out

• Ascertaining responsibility for post-contract maintenance, spare parts and warranty