Monthly Archives: August 2011

This due diligence exercise was motivated by a lack of contract performance. Our client had never visited the supplier, despite having dealt with them for many years. It was believed that the products were being manufactured in the UK, when, in fact, they were being manufactured in Morocco, Turkey, Sri Lanka and India! The tendered […]

Our client used a number of construction project management practices to oversee high-value projects across the UK. The usual pre-qualification and tendering processes had been complied with. We were asked to conduct due diligence post-contract award. In the first instance we visited a construction site that only recently had been opened. We also visited a […]

This cost modeling was conducted on a range of engineering items including complex castings and forgings. This required a full Bill of Materials to be costed, including the raw material cost drivers, use of energy in the melting process, labour costs, machining, quality testing, shipping, overheads and profit. The product cost was divorced from the […]

This was a public sector assignment involving the outsourcing of back-office services, including, ICT, Human Relations, Property & Asset Management, Highways Maintenance, Revenues & Benefits and Customer Contact Centres. The complexity of the procurement and the intention to award a long-term contract of not less than 10 years meant that full cost driver exposure was […]