Tendering and Expert Estimation
How We Do It
We provide complete end to end tender support, not just pricing advice.
From the moment a tender is released, we manage the entire tender lifecycle as a coordinated package. This includes:
- Initial tender review and risk assessment
- Full contract and specification analysis
- Direct cost pricing and trade build up
- Resource pricing, labour modelling and allocations
- Plant and equipment spread analysis
- Construction methodology development
- Staging plans and construction sequencing
- Programming using Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project
- Identification and pricing of provisional sums and latent risk
- Commercial departures and qualifications
- Capability statements and experience submissions
- Compilation and coordination of the final tender submission
By integrating pricing, programming, methodology and contractual risk into a single process, we ensure tenders are priced for delivery, not just competitiveness.
Clients deal with one advisory team that understands the entire tender picture, rather than multiple disconnected consultants.
Programming and Time Analysis
How We Do It
We treat programming as both a delivery tool and a commercial instrument.
Our programming services integrate:
- Construction methodology
- Resource and cost assumptions
- Contractual time obligations
- Claims and entitlement considerations
We prepare and review:
- Tender and baseline programs
- Construction schedules aligned to pricing and resources
- Progress updates with logic integrity
- Delay and disruption analysis
- Extension of time claims
- Critical path and concurrency assessments
Programs are built to support:
- Project delivery
- Commercial negotiations
- Expert review
- Adjudication and dispute resolution
This ensures time analysis aligns with both what was built and what can be proven.
Contract Administration
How We Do It
We embed contract administration into project delivery rather than treating it as an afterthought.
Our approach integrates:
- Contract law principles
- Practical construction experience
- Commercial strategy
- Evidence and notice discipline
We manage:
- Notice regimes and compliance
- Contractual correspondence
- Payment claims and assessments
- Variation identification and tracking
- Claim strategy development
- Final account preparation
We administer bespoke contracts, AS 2124, AS 4000, DTMR contracts and generic subcontract agreements with a focus on protecting entitlement in real time, not reconstructing it later.
Variations
How We Do It
Variations are managed as a live commercial process, not a retrospective claim.
We combine:
- Contractual entitlement analysis
- Technical scope understanding
- Programming and delay linkage
- Forensic costing
Our services cover:
- Early identification of variations
- Cause and effect substantiation
- Cost build ups and pricing assessments
- Defence of rejected or under assessed variations
- Negotiation strategy
By integrating technical, time and cost inputs, we maximise recoverability while reducing dispute risk.
Commercial Claims and Dispute Strategy
How We Do It
Claims are never prepared in isolation.
We draw on the full scope of our expertise, including:
- Contract law and construction law principles
- Practical engineering and construction experience
- Programming and delay analysis
- Forensic costing and quantum development
- Strategic dispute positioning
Our claims services include:
- Claim identification and structuring
- Entitlement analysis under the contract
- Quantum development and substantiation
- Programming and causation integration
- Negotiation and dispute strategy
Claims are prepared as if they will be tested, even when the objective is early commercial resolution.
Contract Terminations
How We Do It
Termination is treated as a strategic event, not a procedural step.
We advise on:
- Termination entitlement and risk
- Pre termination strategy and evidence preparation
- Notice drafting and compliance
- Consequence management
- Post termination recovery and defence
Our integrated approach ensures termination decisions are commercially defensible and legally robust.
Adjudication and BIF Act Claims
How We Do It
We approach adjudication as a strategic recovery mechanism, not a formality.
Our services integrate:
- Contract entitlement analysis
- Evidence collation and structuring
- Claim presentation strategy
- Adjudicator psychology and decision patterns
We support:
- Payment claim strategy and preparation
- Payment schedule analysis
- Adjudication application drafting
- Response rebuttal and reply strategy
- Enforcement planning
We ensure claims are framed to achieve real recovery, not just technical compliance.
Subcontractor Claims and Commercial Management
How We Do It
We work on both sides of the subcontract chain and understand the pressure points on each.
Our services include:
- Subcontract claim preparation
- Back to back entitlement analysis
- Defence of subcontractor claims
- Set off and contra charge strategy
- Commercial negotiation and resolution
We manage subcontractor issues as part of the broader commercial position, not in isolation.
Our One Stop Shop Model
Why It Works
Clients engage Sentinel Contract Advisory because they do not want:
- Fragmented advice
- Disconnected consultants
- Reports that do not align
Our one stop shop model means:
- Tender pricing aligns with delivery
- Programs align with claims
- Contract administration aligns with recovery
- Disputes are prepared with full project context
You deal with one integrated advisory team, accountable for the entire commercial outcome.
