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Cost consultant

Typically cost consultants are quantity surveyors by profession, but accountants and other

professionals can also be effective cost consultants.

The cost consultant provides estimates, and advice regarding the cost of construction works.

The cost consultants role might include:

Helping determine the client's requirements and undertaking f easibility studies.

Benchmar king requirements against similar projects.

Assess ing and comparing options.

Helping define the project budget.

Checking developing designs against the project budget.

Assess ing value for money.

Checking designs meet legal and quality standards.

Undertaking risk management and value management exercises.

Preparing cost plans, estimates and cash flow projections.

Advising on procurement strategy.

Advising on packaging.

Preparing bills of quantities.

Preparing tender pricing documents.

Collating and issuing tender documentation.

Assess ing tenders.

Estimating the cost of variations.

Preparing valuation statements for interim certificates.

Assis ting with the valuation of claims.

Preparing regular cost reports, including out-turn cost and cash flow.

Completing the final account.

There are very many different names given to cost planning documents. Cost plans are generally

prepared by cost consultants (often quantity surveyors). They evolve through the life of the

project, developing in detail and accuracy as more information becomes available about the

nature of the design, and then actual prices are provided by specialist contractors, contractors

and suppliers. They range from very early initial cost appraisals through to tender pricing

documents and the final account.

As a consequence there area a great number of names that can be used for key cost planning

information. On Designing Buildings Wiki we have standardised these as follows:

Initial cost appraisals (studies of options prepared during the feasibility study stage).

Elemental cost plan (prepared during the project brief stage and carried through to detailed

design).

Approximate quantities cost plan (from the end of detailed design through to tender).

Pre-tender estimate (prepared alongside tender documentation).

Tender pricing document (strictly speaking this is not a priced document, but is part of the

tender documentation issued to the contractor for pricing).

Contract sum (agreed with the contractor during the tender period and adjusted during the

construction period).

Contract sum analysis (a break down of the contract sum prepared by the contractor on

design and build projects).Final account (agreed during the defects liability period).

Other than initial cost appraisals, these all relate to the construction cost of the project (rather

than wider project costs that the client might incur, which could include; fees, equipment costs,

furniture, the cost of moving staff, contracts outside of the main works and so on). It is important

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that the client makes clear what costs should be monitored by the cost consultant and what will

remain within the control of the client organisation.

Initial cost appraisals are carried out without the benefit of a design for the project. They include

client costs that may not feature in later cost plans and as a result will almost certainly need

input from the client's finance director or financial advisers. Once the initial cost appraisal is

completed, the client will decide the scope of costs that will in future be monitored by the cost

consultant and those that will be monitored and controlled by the client organisation.

For detailed descriptions of the sequence of activities necessary to appoint a cost consultant,

see the work plan stages:

Traditional contract: appointment.

Design and build: appointment.

Public project: appointment.

Construction management: appointment.

Management contract: appointment.

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