Your full service partner for contractor consulting.
Continuous consulting support for contractor leadership teams.
Contractors call on us to partner with them over a project’s duration to ensure that the project is being administered in an equitable manner.
Six services for contractors and their leadership teams.
Design-Build Management
Construction Management Associates’ new Design-Build Management service delivers a turnkey solution to support design-build contractors in the management of the design process and the design subconsultants, and ensure the timeliness, completeness, correctness and constructability of the project design. It also facilitates coordination and communication between parties on a project.
Tender Management.
At CMA, we know that everything in life is negotiable, and the same is true in construction. Contractors don’t need to go to the negotiating table all alone, and can get tender documents reviewed and negotiations support during the tender phase, maximizing their chances of winning the contract at a favorable price.
Contract Management.
When construction starts, conflicts between contract documents begin to surface, especially if they weren’t scrutinized during the tender phase. The Employer invokes the doctrine of patent ambiguity, while the Contractor seeks refuge under the contra proferentem rule. Claims ensue. CMA has saved contractors millions of dollars and years of delays with industry-leading contract management services.
Planning Management.
CMA considers a baseline schedule as a management tool, not just a contract requirement. We help contractors interrogate the reasonableness of activity durations and are able to carry out adjustment to productivity rates due to the nature and location of the work. We also monitor float deterioration and establish trends, and ensure that your subcontractors’ schedules are free of bias.
Claims Management.
The cost of litigation is astronomical, with an outcome that is often unpredictable and irreducible to scientific certainty. The Contractor needs cues from authority, not opinions. CMA works with contractors to build a solid case to recover lost time and money, so that you don’t have to climb the mountains of difficulty all alone.
Disputes Management.
CMA carries out an objective assessment of the likely outcome of the dispute, whether in arbitration or litigation. Further, CMA carries out an assessment of the cost involved in resolving the dispute, including cost of the institution administering the dispute, cost of the arbitrators, cost of counsel, and cost of expert witnesses.