ADEO - Tailor-made solutions for the construction industry

Global Consulting Ltd IR35 Trusted Partners - delivering comprehensive and complete commercial solutions. Compliant Solution Head Office: 01403 821770 Email: [email protected] Web: www.adeo.uk.com

Contents 15. Doug Durdle – Head of Commercial 16. Post – construction Services 3. About Us 17. Robert Moller – Director of PMO 4. Trusted Partner 18. Project Management Services 5. Ian Brazier – Managing Director 19. Risk Management 6. Our Senior team 20. PMO Experience 7. Our Expertise 21. Ian Brazier & Graham Feakins – Claims and Dispute Resolution 8. Sectors of Operation 22. IR35 Compliant Resource 9. Louisa Griffiths – Regional Director 23. IR35 – Why Adeo are the solution 10. Why choose ADEO as one of your SME partners 24. Our clients 11. Our Fully Managed Service 25. Contact details 12. Edward O’Neill – Director of Pre-construction 13. Pre-construction Services 14. Estimating

About us Company profile A dynamic company committed to supplying commercial efficiency into our clients business. Our client portfolio includes both contractors and consultants across the industry spectrum. Adeo brings a proactive approach to the construction process and regards client satisfaction as paramount to the service it offers. All of Adeo’s services are tailored to meet the requirements of each individual client. This ensures they receive the highest quality of service from inception to completion. Adeo is totally dedicated to understanding, responding, achieving, and excelling our clients’ aims, aspirations, obligations, and objectives. Mission Statement To provide a comprehensive range of totally managed, professional, multi-disciplined commercial support services within the construction industry. Corporate Vision To ensure the provision of the most professional delivery of services to existing and new customers, managed in the most timely and cost- effective manner.

Trusted Partners - delivering comprehensive and complete construction service solutions Adeo has been providing commercial construction services to businesses before, during and after the construction phase for over 25 years. We work with some of the most forward-thinking companies in the industry, covering projects involving infrastructure, utilities, highways, rail, education, and commercial development. Drawing on our multi-disciplined team of fully qualified Quantity Surveyors, Estimators, Planners, Risk Managers, Claim Consultants and Project Managers, we tailor our services to meet your needs, providing you with the right partner to help you maximise profit and reduce risk. Bringing relevant and current experience to all sectors of the construction industry, we offer a comprehensive range of customer- centric solutions, working with clients from the start of their projects through to completion. ADEO’s Commercial Solutions are well established and provide leading UK Contractors and Consultancies with interim multi-disciplined commercial support. We offer our fully employed staff on either short term or long- term secondments.

Ian Brazier Managing Director “Our commercial team can be deployed on long or short-term contracts, giving you access to specialist skills and expertise from Quantity Surveyors and Cost Consultants to Claims & Dispute Resolution experts whenever you need them. The delivery of a successful construction project requires a complete review of all costs and timescales to ensure your business maximises profits and minimises any exposure to risk. Bringing all commercial aspects of a contract to a successful conclusion can be time consuming and difficult to control. Cost effective solutions and efficient processes are needed to resolve any disputes and deliver a commercially viable project. With our deep understanding of the construction industry, Adeo provides fully employed teams with the experience, contractual knowledge, and resources to complete this process professionally, effectively, and efficiently”. [email protected] 01403 821771 Reasons to choose Adeo? • Consultancy not an agency. • We work in partnership with each client to deliver a tailored solution that best supports their project. • Experts in all standard form of contracts including JCT and NEC. • We are flexible in our approach. • We are trusted industry advisors and experts in our field. • Our workforce is agile for either short or long-term projects. • We directly employ our staff on permanent employment contracts and therefore fully IR35 compliant. • We offer a cost-effective solution based on you budget and timescale. • We champion and support continuous professional development. • We provide a fully managed service. • Adeo employees have the support of the entire Adeo multi-disciplined team behind them, ensuring collaboration and sharing of skills.

Our Senior Team Our highly skilled professionals fully integrate with your team to deliver practical, cost-effective solutions to a broad spectrum of challenges faced during the construction process. Whether you need a stand-alone team, or professional support to supplement your in-house expertise, Adeo is always on hand with a variety of innovative and integrated solutions to suit your business. The diverse skills of our commercial team combine to offer an integrated, high quality commercial management service. We have an impressive track record of overcoming obstacles, with practical solutions to reduce the complexity, timescale and cost of projects.

Our expertise • Pre-Contract • Post-Contract • Commercial Management • Quantity Surveying • Change Management • Claims and Dispute Resolution • Planning & Project Controls (PMO) • Risk Management • Project Management

CIVIL RAIL HIGHWAYS COMMERCIAL ENGINEERING AND RETAIL Sectors of operation CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION UTILITIES AVIATION

Louisa Griffiths Regional Director Our approach makes all the differnce. “We’re different from other cost consultancies; we like to work closely with you and become part of your team. This enables us to completely understand your business. We recognise the uniqueness that every project brings, which is why we put our clients and their projects at the core of everything we do. We encourage open dialogue and total honesty because this leads to mutual respect and the motivation to succeed together. Our aim is to build long lasting collaborative relationships which provides us with the platform to develop a robust understanding of your key drivers and deliverables, enabling us to create a tailored approach to each project. We will support and advise you every step of the way to help you deliver the best possible solution for your project needs, help with additional projects and provide professional support for your business that you can rely on. We have the structure in place to manage people and with the flexibility essential to the changing landscape of our industry we should be your SME of choice.” Louisa is based between both our Peterborough and Birmingham hubs.

Why choose ADEO as one of your SME partners • It’s personal - We deal more directly with clients, which enables us to meet your needs more accurately and to offer a more tailored service. In addition, this approach allows us to get to know and understand the variations of the project. • We’re flexible - Because of our size and simple structure, we have greater capacity to adapt to changes, and have greater capability to increase or reduce our resources accordingly. • Filling the gap – ADEO’s commercial team include a diverse range of industry professionals operating in different sectors and distinguished by a wide range of knowledge, skills, and capabilities. • Quick decisions – Decision making will normally fall to the MD Mr Ian Brazier or one of the Senior Management Team therefore making us much more agile and quicker to take direct action. • A problem shared – ADEO provides a fully managed service, so whether you have one person or an entire commercial team they will be fully supported by the ADEO ‘service guarantee’. • It’s good to talk – Communication is an essential part of our business, and we encourage regular engagement between the teams, this enables the exchange of new ideas to flow and problems to be solved as a team. This has been proven to increase performance and improve teamwork. In addition, in certain situations, such as problem solving, it will be much easier to share the tasks among the people who are more knowledgeable or better qualified to solve them.

Our fully managed service Simply put, Adeo’s Managed Service is designed around understanding and responding to client needs. Adeo’s managed services can: • Provide a team at the initial stages of your project allowing you time to recruit and establish your own in-house team. • Provide additional capability and expertise to your company’s in – house team. • Add specialist services and competencies to the team as and when you need them. • Give you a flexible and agile workforce. • Allow your in-house team to focus on more strategic programs and competencies. • Free up your team at the end of a project by providing final accounts capability. Fulfilled and valued staff. • Our client teams undertake regular 1-2-1 staff reviews, monthly team meetings and annual staff appraisals whereby we discuss and agree objectives for the 12 months ahead. • We champion continuous professional development and offer training to staff regardless of level to ensure we continue to provide up to date advice/service and a high caliber of staff to our clients’ organisation. • We have a mentoring/buddy system to support the onboarding process and to give our staff the reach back they require into our organisation when embedded within client teams. • Each member of staff has a Line Manager so there is always and point of contact for both our staff member and our client.

Director of Pre-contract services Edward O’Neill With over 20 years of commercial experience gained within Rail, Aviation, Civils, Residential, Entertainment and Hotel industries (public and private sector) with majority being from a main - and subcontractor position. Ed leads a team of Pre-construction specialists and carry's out tenders for projects worth between £1m to £50m. “The pre-construction process is vital to the success of any project. Working as part of your team or as a complete solution, we ensure proposed projects are affordable and costs remain under control.”

Pre-construction services include • Preparation of Bills of Quantity. • Advice on procurement strategies. • Feasibility Studies. • Tender documentation review and preparation of tender reports. • Preparation of budget estimates and cost planning. • Advice and drafting of contracts and sub-contracts. • Preparation of cash flow forecasts. • Advise and implementation on • Whole Life Cycle Cost. control systems. • Value engineering and value • Advice on contractor selection management to make sure objectives Contract negotiation and execution. are achieved.

Estimating How we work We want to give you the best possible support for your projects, so we don’t rely on standard pricing structure and formulas from pricing manuals. We talk to you about your business suppliers, sub-contractors, and historical pricing. We then use this as the basis for our estimating work. We make sure that we identify and explain the commercial or construction risks involved so that you can decide how you wish to proceed. As estimators we also provide: • Tender document review and pricing preparation. • Tender document preparation based on the established procurement strategy and form of contract. • Approximate and budget estimates. • Bill of Quantities preparation from specification and drawings. • Bill of Quantities pricing. • Sub-contractor comparisons and negotiations. • Post-contract liaison with contract teams.

Head of Commercial – Post contract services Doug Durdle Doug has 30 years’ experience Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management experience working for Main Contractors in Building and Civils focusing primarily on Local Authority and Highways sectors. In this time Doug has successfully managed a variety of different schemes and projects including Major Civils Schemes and Term Maintenance Contracts to achieve maximum value with focus primarily being on working and administering under the NEC form of Contract. “The commercial demands of a project from start to finish is a long process demanding specialists you may not have on your payroll. Working with Adeo is the most effective way to access the skills and expertise you need as your build nears its completion phase.”

Post-construction services include • Day to day QS services. • Contract documentation, audit, and review. • Contractual dispute resolution and mediation. • Sub –contract procurement. • Supply chain management • Cost process audit. • Preparation of outline claim strategy and co- • Change control management. ordinate and manage resource. • Contractors Financial Management. • Forensic cost and planning analysis. • Cash flow forecasts. • Prepare claim narrative and quantum. • Monthly cost/value reconciliation. • Performance monitoring. • Re-measurement, cost evaluation, • Submit and negotiate claims. • Setting up and implementation of cost review, and advice. control and reporting procedure. • Research and advise on Value engineering and Cost efficiencies. • Project reviews and audits. • Preparation and settlement of final accounts.

Director of PMO Robert Möller Roberts impressive project controls and planning career spans over 16 years, across 7 countries. As an expert in systems such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Projects, Robert has successfully delivered Change Control and Programme Assurance for Clients and Sub- contractors alike. • As an advocate for NEC, Robert is passionate that Planners be present from concept design through to completion, ensuring all project aspects are visible and managed, including; • Programme Management • Project Management • Risk Management • Change Control “My years of experience has taught me one thing, the Programme is key, second only to clear and open communication with our Stakeholders. We aim to be your on-site representative and your single point of contact. We can manage projects from inception through to completion, or at stages where you most need our help and support.”

Project management services • Establish the clients’ objectives. • Manage and monitor the programme. • Tendering of Projects. • Undertake feasibility studies. • Manage the budget estimates, cost planning and agreement • Appraise funds and investment. of variations (NEC and other contract formats). • Advice on procurement strategies and options. • Select and appoint the project design team. • Manage the appointed contractors. • Manage and co-ordinate the design • Manage and co-ordinate the design progress reporting. • Ensure quality management and Safety systems are • Set up project and financial control systems. implemented. • Manage all stages of project lifecycle. • Undertake post completion reviews and close out reports.

Risk management • Adeo Global Consulting provide experienced and talented Risk Management specialists who will help, advise and support you. • We will examine your requirements and needs and provide recommendations as to how you can utilise Risk Management to bring you the best possible value. • Our Risk Management professionals have worked with many diverse organisations of all Risk maturity levels and competences. • We can work with your existing systems, people and processes to develop and implement new, more resilient practices which add enhanced value whilst simultaneously improving the Risk culture by means of dedicated training and mentoring.

Our PMO experience Collaborative Planning Meetings Cost Planning Resource Planning Validation of Baseline and optimisation Tender Preparation 12 WLA Procurement Planning Forensic Planning Exception Reporting Integrated Programme Planning Schedule Risk Analysis Version Control Document Control Integrated Project Planning S-curves Project Controls Progress Reporting Mitigation Planning Baseline development RACI Management Change Management Optioneering Earned Value Management Accruals Programme validation Stakeholder Management

Claims and dispute resolution Ian Brazier & Graham Feakins In a construction environment, claims over time and money are almost inevitable, whilst every contractor will endeavour to deliver projects punctually and within budget, delays and change in specification are unavoidable. Whatever the reason a claim, or dispute has arisen, we offer clients the full support of our contractual, commercial, and planning expertise. At Adeo we are knowledgeable in all areas of Construction Claims. We have been appointed on several Construction Claims, ranging from smaller scale claims to multi-million-pound disputes. Adeo will offer a full and candid appraisal of your claim, provide tactical guidance as well as preparation of time and cost entitlement documentation that will support your claim. It is essential to implement a clear strategy to ensure a successful outcome to your claim. The Adeo Team encompasses strong project leadership, extensive knowledge, and unprejudiced vision. Clients benefit from our wealth of experience and guidance; we focus on the provable issues and prepare documentation that is accurate both legally and technically as well of course its commercial viability.

IR35 compliant solution Changes made to IR35 have had a considerable effect on companies hiring individual contractors where the detail and nature of the working environment more closely represents an employer-employee relationship. HMRC will be coming down hard on companies who do not meet the requirements of this legislation. If it is found that a contractor or company is in breach, there are severe financial penalties to be paid. Under IR35, HMRC can investigate up to 6 years of history and evaluate past contracts to determine whether the legislation applies. Unfortunately, some organisations and competitors rely upon either unproven or untested determinations as to IR35 compliance or the use of unregulated and in some cases questionable Umbrella companies to supply their staff. These are often led by trying to utilise cheaper resource and unfortunately this undermines their ability to properly control and manage their provision of services, irrespective of what they profess to be able to supply.

Why Adeo are the solution • We can ensure and certify our staff are all IR35 compliant, relieving you of the responsibility for any additional tax burden. • Adeo’s USP has always been that it fully employs its staff and over the course of the last year as IR35 has been rolled out this has resulted in our clients being able to rest assured that they have a totally compliant supply chain. • This affords us the benefit of being able to guarantee all clients and the ultimate end user the same assurance and safeguards against any future tax enquiry and more importantly liability.

Our client portfolio Our innovative approach and commitment to clients has helped us build long term relationships that we are proud of.

Where you can find us Head Office Regional Office - Peterborough Our head office is in a rural setting on the outskirts of Ian Brazier MD Louisa Griffiths Southwater, West Sussex with easy access to the market town of Tel: 01403 821771 Regional Director Email: [email protected] Tel: 07889 252862 Horsham and Gatwick International Airport. Email: [email protected] We have Adeo hubs around the country, in Peterborough and Bill Mansell BDM Birmingham – which place us well to serve you on a national Tel: 07807 277531 Sonia Jones Email: [email protected] Principal Risk Manager level. Doug Durdle Tel: 07767 660681 Head office: Unit 16, Oakhurst Business Park, Wilberforce Way, Head of Commercial Email: [email protected] Southwater, Horsham, West Sussex, Tel: 07845 386320 RH13 9RT Email: [email protected] Birmingham - Hub Registered No. 05481298 VAT No: 981415609 Edward O’Neill Louisa Griffiths Director of Pre-Construction Regional Director Tel: 07889 252862 Tel: 07840 748110 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Robert Moller Head of PMO Tel: 07752 239699 Email: [email protected]