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Does It Matter What Your Construction Or Engineering Tender Says?

  • Date: 07/12/2020
  • Category: Tender

Does It Matter What Your Tender Says? Yes it does as it is part of the enquiry to order process, and that process requires careful management because it is one of the …

Contractor’s Quantity Surveyor (QS) Reducing Your Payment?

Stop The Contractor’s QS Reducing Your Payment? You can bet your mortgage on the fact that if you are working for a Main Contractor, their Quantity Surveyor will want to pay you …

Design Liability – Don’t Make Choices & Void Your Insurance Cover!

Design Liability You Didn’t Think You Had If you make any kind of choice whatsoever about materials, methods or specification, then you have designed! This article is primarily to provide advice and …

Construction & Engineering Subcontractor Payment Problems

Professional Support to Help Specialist Contractors and Trade Contractors Solve Payment and other Problems The most important question! One of the most important questions you will be asking in the challenging months …

Wise Up Wednesday: VAT Rule Changes For Subcontractors

VAT Rule Change For Subcontractors Exclusively For Specialist Contractors VAT rule changes for subcontractors. Reminder – VAT Rule Changes Are You Ready? The VAT rule changes have NOT repeat NOT gone away! …

Wise Up Wednesday: No Notice – No Extension of Time – No Payment!

The first thing to understand, and I cannot over emphasise this point, is that if you don’t issue notices when you should, you won’t get extensions of time and you won’t get …

Wise Up Wednesday: Business Can Never Be The Same Again!

“Business can never be the same again. If there is one lesson we must take forward with us, as we emerge from the Covid-19 lockdown, it is how unacceptably vulnerable the machinery …

25% Off This “Must read for all subcontractors…”

“If you are a subcontractor you need to read this book”: so says one of the many positive reviews of my book The Streetwise Subbie. The StreetwiseSubbie is a book that is …

Wise Up Wednesday: The #1 Way To Destroy Your Business!

Cash flow is king. Construction is a tough place to do business and as a Specialist Contractor, Trade Contractor or Subcontractor your kind of business is most at risk. And whilst losing …

Wise Up Wednesday: Making A Profit Is Not A Matter Of Luck!

After 20 years as a Specialist Contractor and 30 years of advising Specialist Contractors, Trade Contractors and Subcontractors I can confidently say that whether your business makes a profit or not, profit …

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