Fractional Commercial Support
Commercial expertise without a full-time commercial department.
The Method gives you the system. Fractional Commercial Support gives you the ongoing commercial challenge and oversight.
You've implemented the controls.
Now keep them working.
Fractional Commercial Support gives growing contractors ongoing access to experienced RICS Chartered Quantity Surveyors to review, challenge and support their commercial performance.
The gap
Someone still needs to challenge the numbers.
A good system makes commercial information visible.
But commercial judgement still matters.
- Margins move.
- Contracts change.
- Variations become disputed.
- Costs increase.
- Clients delay decisions.
- New projects start.
Your team needs support.
You may not need—or be able to justify—a full-time commercial manager or QS.
That’s where fractional support fits.
What we do
Ongoing commercial oversight around the system you've implemented.
Depending on your business, ongoing support may include:
Monthly commercial reviews
Review project positions, movements and risks.
Forecast Final Margin
Challenge assumptions and identify deteriorating positions.
Variation oversight
Review significant outstanding variations and actions.
Cash visibility
Review project-related applications, receipts and upcoming requirements.
Commercial risk
Identify issues requiring management attention.
Commercial advice
Provide experienced input when more difficult commercial situations arise.
Team accountability
Help maintain the commercial rhythm established through the Method.
Director support
Give the owner or MD an experienced commercial sounding board.
What we're not selling
This isn't a bucket of QS hours.
We’re not interested in creating a retainer where everybody counts hours and wonders whether they’ve “used their allocation.”
The objective is ongoing commercial oversight.
Provides the system.
Provide the day-to-day information and action.
Provides the experienced commercial challenge and support.
The bridge
Build the commercial capability you need now—not the department you'll need three years from now.
As the business grows, your needs will change.
You may eventually employ your own QS, Commercial Manager or wider commercial team.
That’s a positive outcome.
Fractional Commercial Support helps bridge the gap between:
Owner + spreadsheets
Structured commercial control
Fractional commercial expertise
Mature internal commercial capability
Commercial Control Scorecard™
How commercially controlled is your business?
Find out where job profitability, variations, cash and commercial processes may be putting your business at risk.
Take the free Commercial Control Scorecard™ and get a clearer picture of where you stand.
