CONTRACTOR MANAGEMENT
One layer between you and a dozen contractors.
Tendering, validating, overseeing and chasing the specialists who actually do the work, so you're not managing a dozen relationships or taking their reports on trust. We commission them. We just don't profit from them.
When to use this
Sound like your situation?
THE PROBLEM
Taking the contractor's word for it
Most managing agents end up holding a stack of contractor relationships and no real way to check any of them. The fire alarm engineer says it's tested. The door company says they're compliant. The report says the work's done. But who's actually verifying that, against the standard and against what you're paying for?
Without an independent layer, you're trusting the people you're paying to mark their own homework. That's how overcharging, scope creep and quiet non-compliance slip through.
WHAT WE DO
Commissioned, validated, overseen
Clean tendering
We tender work on clear, comparable terms, so you appoint the right specialist on merit, not on who quoted first.
Independent validation
Every output checked against the standard and against the contract, not taken on trust.
One point of contact
You deal with us, not a dozen separate contractors. We hold the relationships and the detail.
Scope & quote review
We check scope and pricing before work is instructed, so you're not over-specified or overcharged.
Managed payments, optional
Where it helps, we can manage contractor payments through us to save you onboarding every supplier.
Ongoing oversight
We chase, check and hold contractors to account over time, not just at the point of appointment.
THE INDEPENDENCE POINT
We manage them. We don't profit from them.
This is where our independence does real work. Because we carry out none of the physical work and take no commission, we've no reason to let a contractor over-specify, over-price, or under-deliver. We're the one party in the chain whose only interest is your building.
And where onboarding multiple contractors is a headache, we can manage the payments through us, so you avoid setting up a dozen suppliers while still seeing exactly what each one charged. You pay for two things separately: the contractor's price for the work, and our fee for the oversight, briefing, review and management around it. Both are itemised and visible. The contractor's quote is what it is — we don't mark it up. We don't take commission, we don't accept referral fees, and we don't share in the contractor's profit. What we charge is for our time and judgement, not for the works.
A one-off tender or a fully managed contractor regime, we can do either.
The brief drives the contractor
A contractor can only deliver good work if the brief is right, and the brief comes from the wider fire safety picture: the strategy, the FRA, the compartmentation lines, the door schedule.
We tie those together before we hand anything to a contractor. So a fire door quote scopes against the right door rating for that building, a fire stopping job scopes against the actual compartmentation, and an alarm upgrade scopes against the evacuation strategy.
That's how you stop a contractor pricing for the wrong solution.
The brief comes from here
Sets the rules
Fire strategy
Defines what the building actually requires, before anyone quotes for anything.
See fire strategies →Often paired with
Fire door governance
Door work is where over-quoting hits hardest. The same contractor surveying is often the one bidding to replace.
See fire door governance →Often paired with
Compartmentation
Fire stopping is the other place contractors mark their own homework. We tender, validate and oversee, without selling the work.
See compartmentation →Got a contractor quote that doesn't feel right?
Send it over. We'll tell you what's necessary, what's inflated, and what's missing, with no contractor of our own to push you toward.