Services: Public Owner; Prime Contractor; Small Business
If you are a small business, we can help you increase your bottom line by providing the following
services:
a. Address your company’s legal and business formation issues. This helps you put your company
in the best position for finding business and complying with the legal requirements small businesses
are faced with, such as certifications, licensing, taxes, legal liability, etc.
b. Help you understand where you need to improve your business infrastructure in order to better
position your business for growth. This helps you “see” your business through objective eyes so you
can pinpoint areas where you need to improve to build capacity and grow. It also will enable you to
identify the business resource providers who are best able to help you.
c. Help you develop and implement a Lean Construction initiative for your agency, including
coaching your leadership and staff on ways to help make the cultural change necessary to make the
Lean initiative sustainable.
d. Analyze the contract terms and conditions of a project you are considering bidding and creating a
Contract Risk Profile of that contract so you better understand the risks you would be taking on. This lets
you make a better informed “go – no go” decision and if you decided to “go” better prepare yourself to
manage the risks
e. Navigate the owner’s or prime contractor’s subcontract procurement strategy. This gives you
have a better chance of winning bids and getting more work as well as complying with the legal
requirements in the procurement documents.
f. Help you more effectively manage your risk of performing on a subcontract, where there
complicated requirements in the contract that “flow down” from the contract between the owner and the
prime contractor, to you. This helps you reduce your risk of your own contract default and default by your
subcontractors. Plus, for many public owners, these practices are considered an important part of “good
faith efforts”, to the extent the owner’s contract requirements for business inclusion apply to you.
g. Help you more effectively manage your risk of dealing with subcontractors and suppliers by
making sure you have clear contracts and by helping these vendors comply with your contract
requirements. This helps you reduce your risk of your default by your subcontractors. Plus, for many
public owners, these practices are considered an important part of “good faith efforts”, to the extent the
owner’s contract requirements for business inclusion apply to you.
h. Develop and execute a program, which satisfies the owner’s requirements for engaging in “good
faith efforts” for small business inclusion. This not only helps you cost effectively fulfill any procurement
or contract requirements for business inclusion, but enhances your reputation as a socially responsible
contractor. For some public owners, these efforts give you a competitive edge.
i. If you are operating as a prime contractor, we can help you develop and implement a “project
partnering” program for your project to prevent claims. This helps you identify and resolve disputes
before they become claims or worse, lawsuits. It helps keep the communication, which is necessary to
solve problems, alive on a project. If, as a subcontractor, you are involved in a project with a “project
partnering” program, we can help you understand with it means to your company and how to take
advantage of it.
j. Analyze and pursue contract claims. This helps you defend your company from claims and hold
prime contractors, subcontractors, vendors or owners accountable for their failures to comply with their
contracts.
k. Engage in dispute resolution, including: mediation, arbitration and litigation. This helps you
resolve a dispute with the least expense and stress as possible.
l. Legal and technical research and writing. This helps you have cost effective access to specialized
expertise on an on-call basis. This could give you a competitive edge is getting a contract, performing a
contract or defending a contract.
m. Engage in organizational development improvements, including policy development and cultural
change. This helps you cost effectively learn and apply “best practices” used by the public owners and
prime contractors that you are working with. Further, it helps you foster an environment of continuous
learning and improvement within your company, which support growth and excellence.
n. Teaching your management and staff about “best practices” related to public works procurements
and contracts. This helps you keep your staff current, motivated and responsive.
o. Engage in company visioning and strategic planning required to support business growth. This
helps you stay focused on your business by rising above the frantic day-to-day operations and thinking
through long term and short term planning.
p. Help you identify and take advantage of business opportunities, including effective marketing and
finding opportunities for strategic alliances, such as joint ventures. This helps you think and operate
“outside the box” of your normal market so you can identify and create new opportunities to find business
and make money.
services:
a. Address your company’s legal and business formation issues. This helps you put your company
in the best position for finding business and complying with the legal requirements small businesses
are faced with, such as certifications, licensing, taxes, legal liability, etc.
b. Help you understand where you need to improve your business infrastructure in order to better
position your business for growth. This helps you “see” your business through objective eyes so you
can pinpoint areas where you need to improve to build capacity and grow. It also will enable you to
identify the business resource providers who are best able to help you.
c. Help you develop and implement a Lean Construction initiative for your agency, including
coaching your leadership and staff on ways to help make the cultural change necessary to make the
Lean initiative sustainable.
d. Analyze the contract terms and conditions of a project you are considering bidding and creating a
Contract Risk Profile of that contract so you better understand the risks you would be taking on. This lets
you make a better informed “go – no go” decision and if you decided to “go” better prepare yourself to
manage the risks
e. Navigate the owner’s or prime contractor’s subcontract procurement strategy. This gives you
have a better chance of winning bids and getting more work as well as complying with the legal
requirements in the procurement documents.
f. Help you more effectively manage your risk of performing on a subcontract, where there
complicated requirements in the contract that “flow down” from the contract between the owner and the
prime contractor, to you. This helps you reduce your risk of your own contract default and default by your
subcontractors. Plus, for many public owners, these practices are considered an important part of “good
faith efforts”, to the extent the owner’s contract requirements for business inclusion apply to you.
g. Help you more effectively manage your risk of dealing with subcontractors and suppliers by
making sure you have clear contracts and by helping these vendors comply with your contract
requirements. This helps you reduce your risk of your default by your subcontractors. Plus, for many
public owners, these practices are considered an important part of “good faith efforts”, to the extent the
owner’s contract requirements for business inclusion apply to you.
h. Develop and execute a program, which satisfies the owner’s requirements for engaging in “good
faith efforts” for small business inclusion. This not only helps you cost effectively fulfill any procurement
or contract requirements for business inclusion, but enhances your reputation as a socially responsible
contractor. For some public owners, these efforts give you a competitive edge.
i. If you are operating as a prime contractor, we can help you develop and implement a “project
partnering” program for your project to prevent claims. This helps you identify and resolve disputes
before they become claims or worse, lawsuits. It helps keep the communication, which is necessary to
solve problems, alive on a project. If, as a subcontractor, you are involved in a project with a “project
partnering” program, we can help you understand with it means to your company and how to take
advantage of it.
j. Analyze and pursue contract claims. This helps you defend your company from claims and hold
prime contractors, subcontractors, vendors or owners accountable for their failures to comply with their
contracts.
k. Engage in dispute resolution, including: mediation, arbitration and litigation. This helps you
resolve a dispute with the least expense and stress as possible.
l. Legal and technical research and writing. This helps you have cost effective access to specialized
expertise on an on-call basis. This could give you a competitive edge is getting a contract, performing a
contract or defending a contract.
m. Engage in organizational development improvements, including policy development and cultural
change. This helps you cost effectively learn and apply “best practices” used by the public owners and
prime contractors that you are working with. Further, it helps you foster an environment of continuous
learning and improvement within your company, which support growth and excellence.
n. Teaching your management and staff about “best practices” related to public works procurements
and contracts. This helps you keep your staff current, motivated and responsive.
o. Engage in company visioning and strategic planning required to support business growth. This
helps you stay focused on your business by rising above the frantic day-to-day operations and thinking
through long term and short term planning.
p. Help you identify and take advantage of business opportunities, including effective marketing and
finding opportunities for strategic alliances, such as joint ventures. This helps you think and operate
“outside the box” of your normal market so you can identify and create new opportunities to find business
and make money.
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