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Commercial and contract advisory for infrastructure, construction and PPP projects, from tender strategy to final account. Based in Brisbane, working across Australia.
We work on the commercial side of the bid, the contract and the concession.
For contractors, project teams and asset owners on infrastructure, construction, facilities management and PPP work. We help you decide what to chase, price it properly, sign a contract you can live with and hold on to the margin through delivery.
Five services that follow a project from the first go/no-go decision through to the final account and, on PPPs, the decades of operation after it.
Strategic positioning and commercial frameworks that turn bids into wins. We find the opportunities worth chasing, test your competitive position and build a submission backed by rigorous commercial analysis.
Detailed estimates and commercial models that demonstrate value and manage risk. For maintenance and facilities contracts we run the needs assessment, write the specification and price it accurately.
Once the contract is awarded, administration decides whether the margin survives. We provide the commercial discipline that keeps delivery on track from commencement to final account.
Early identification of contract, delivery and governance risk, so issues are managed before they turn into disputes or cost leakage.
The commercial and contractual side of asset management across multi-decade concessions, so lifecycle value and the performance regime stay aligned.
A major facilities management and services provider wanted to grow in the Defence sector, with a government contract worth more than $12 billion over its term coming to market.
A $1.2 billion brownfield hospital redevelopment with facilities management over a 25-year concession. We developed the asset management strategy and whole-of-life cost analysis behind the bid.
ContractLens is our contract risk review. Upload a subcontract and it is checked against commercial best practice, clause by clause.
Pick a clause from the sample report to see what ContractLens found and what it tells you to do about it. The scenario is fictional; the risks are the ones we see on real subcontracts.
Critical
Clause 8.1
“No verbal instruction shall constitute a variation under this Subcontract.”
Every time you act on a phone call, a toolbox-talk instruction or a marked-up drawing without chasing written approval first, you are doing free work.
Raise it in tender clarifications, not after award. Ask for a written-confirmation mechanism: you confirm within five business days and the variation is deemed authorised unless disputed.
Every review includes a free 30-minute call with a WPC commercial manager. Commercial risk insights only, not legal advice.
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Pursue. Decide which opportunities are worth the bid cost, then shape the team and the win themes around the client's real priorities.
Brisbane River, 7 December 1939
Price. Build the estimate and commercial model so the number is competitive and the risk inside it is known.
Rocklea workshops, Brisbane
Contract. Read every clause that moves money or time, and negotiate the departures before signature, while you can still change them.
Centre panels erected, 25 October 1939
Deliver. Administer the contract, manage variations and claims, and forecast cost so the margin you won is the margin you keep.
From Main Street, Kangaroo Point, January 1940
Russell Hopkins is the director of WPC Consulting. He works as a commercial manager and pursuit lead on infrastructure, construction and FM projects: tender strategy, bid pricing, contract administration, FM transitions and audits, and PPP cost benchmarking.
WPC also builds practical tools from that work. ContractLens turns the first commercial read of a subcontract into a report a small business can act on, without the cost of a full legal review.
Send the tender, the contract or the problem. We will tell you plainly where the commercial risk sits and what to do about it.
Starting a bid or signing a contract?
russell.hopkins@wpcconsulting.com.au 0437 835 945Brisbane, Queensland. Working with clients across Australia.