CMS: Your Solution for Contractual Issues in the Construction Industry

Providing you with a tender which has been assessed using market leading processes. Ensuring youhave cost certainty, in accordance with your brief and design requirements.

Ensuring that your project stays on track and within budget. We will handle all aspects of progress claim assessment, financial cost reporting and forecasting, cash flow analysis, and variation assessment and negotiation. We'll also manage disputes and provide independent client representation, so you can focus on what you do best. With our services, you'll have peace of mind knowing that your project is in good hands.

Unique expertise services to assist with complex commercial management challenges. These services include providing an engineer to act as a contract representative, supporting adjudication and arbitration proceedings (including expert witness services), conducting adjudication under the Construction Contracts Act, performing forensic quantity surveying, conducting insolvency and corporate investigations, offering dispute mediation, and providing client representation.

CMS provides banks and institutions with practical, technically sound advice to support the lending proposition and management of risk. We offer advice underpinned by years of industry experience and expertise in appraising often complex trading businesses at either main contractor or subcontractor level providing clarity on the key contractual risk areas facilitating informed lending. We are usually engaged to provide a detailed review of the current trading position of a subject business and to quantify contractual exposure risk.

Our advisory work typically comprises:

We support insolvency practitioners and turnaround professionals in the entire course of their work, from early-stage investigation to effecting a turnaround or formal insolvency in construction and related companies. CMS provide accurate assessments of current trading profile in all manner of circumstances. This enables open dialogue on the potential strategies available to maximise value whilst providing insolvency practitioners and turn around professionals with an insight into the profile outcomes or benefits.