CONMAAT provides Contract Management, Dispute avoidance and Dispute Resolution services for construction and engineering projects merging project management, engineering and construction law under a single service. Our holistic approach delivers high added-value services maintaining time and cost-effective solutions.
CONMAAT assists owners, contractors, subcontractors, government agencies, architects, engineers and financial institutions in the management of their contracts from the very early stages of the project to completion, operation and maintenance.
We work in cooperation with clients’ team, focused in delivering value and minimizing the deployment of resources to keep the cost of the service low, but maintaining the excellence, value and effectiveness of our solutions.
CONMAAT provides a wide range of services that can be adapted to the requirements of each project.
DUE DILIGENCE AND RISK ASSESSMENT
We provide a full assessment of the technical and contractual documentation of a project in order to:
- Define and evaluate the contractual and legal risks of the project.
- Establish strategies and actions that eliminate, mitigate or transfer risks.
- Seek opportunities to optimise the project.
PROACTIVE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
CONMAAT assists clients to manage their contract during the execution of the works with three main goals:
- Reduce the cost of the project.
- Improve cash-flow.
- Avoid liquidated damages.
We achieve these three goals by applying firmly the following five-step method:
- Verify that the executed works are strictly contained among the boundaries of the scope of works defined by the contract and legal requirements. And notify in the case that there is any modification of the scope of works or unforeseen event.
- In the case that a dispute or claim arise, produce the required documentation in order to crystalize the dispute.
- Establish and document the causal link between the issue/event and its consequences.
- Evaluated, record and document the impact in cost and time of the issue/event giving rise to the dispute or claim.
- Prepare solid disputes or claims that can be used during a negotiation, mediation, arbitration or other ADR.
As part of the Contract / Dispute management services CONMAAT provides assistance in the following activities:
- Change Order and Claim Management
- Value Engineering
- Planning Management
- Claim Management.
- Record Management
- Damage estimations
- Drafting Correspondence
FORENSIC CLAIM PREPARATION SERVICES
CONMAAT investigates and analyses retrospectively project data seeking for events and evidence to substantiate, estimate and prepare claims related to:
- Additional cost
- Extension of time
- Breach of the contract
- Professional liability,…
Our Forensic Claim Preparation Services are delivered in four stages:
- Identify the potential claim events
- Validation of the contractual and legal merits of each claim
- Valuation of the impact in time and cost of the claim events
- Preparation of the statement of claim to be used as part of a negotiation, arbitration, adjudication, mediation or other ADR.