Quantity verification
Physical measurement and drawing-based re-take-off of claimed quantities, with variance reported item by item.
Consultancy & Design
Technical Audit
Independent verification of executed quantities, workmanship records and payment history — commissioned by owners who need assurance, and by contractors who want to know their position first.
Overview
Why this matters on your contract
A technical audit answers a question that is uncomfortable but valuable: does what has been paid for match what has been built and recorded? Owners commission audits when payment applications outpace visible progress. Contractors commission them when they suspect their own records will not survive scrutiny — and would rather find out privately.
We audit against the contract documents, the approved drawings and the physical works. The output is factual, quantified and prioritised: what has been verified, what cannot be substantiated, what is missing, and what it is worth. We do not soften findings for the party who engaged us, which is the only thing that makes an audit worth having.
What you receive
- Audit report with findings ranked by financial and contractual consequence
- Item-by-item quantity variance schedule
- Reconciled payment position statement
- Register of unclaimed or under-claimed entitlements
- Prioritised remedial action list with owners and deadlines
Scope
What the service includes
Every element below is covered as standard. Anything outside it is quoted separately and agreed before we begin.
Payment and billing audit
Reconciliation of interim certificates against measured work, deductions, recoveries, advances and retention.
Quality record review
Verification that material test results and inspection records exist for the work claimed, and that they fall within specification.
Documentation recovery
Reconstruction of missing measurement, approval and instruction records from drawings, correspondence and photographic evidence.
Entitlement identification
Discovery of variation, escalation and time entitlements that were never claimed — frequently the audit pays for itself here.
Project health assessment
An overall position statement covering cost, time, quality and contractual exposure, written for decision-makers.
Our Approach
How we do this differently
01
Findings are quantified, not characterised
Every finding carries a number. “Records are weak” is not a finding; “NPR 4.2 million of claimed quantity cannot be substantiated” is.
02
We find money as often as we find problems
Unclaimed escalation and unrecorded variation are extremely common. Several audits have returned more than they cost within a single billing cycle.
03
Fixed fee, agreed before we start
You know the cost of the audit before commissioning it, which means the decision to audit is never itself a risk.
Questions
Common questions
If yours is not answered here, call us — the conversation is free and usually short.
+977 1 4538 720A single-site building contract is typically four to six weeks. Multi-site programmes are scoped after an initial review — we will give you a firm duration and fee before starting.
In our experience the opposite. A contractor who commissions an audit and corrects its findings before the client raises them is treated very differently from one who is caught out.
You will still be far better off knowing. Most findings have a remedy — reconstructing records, submitting a corrected position, or negotiating from a known basis. Discovering the same issue during a client audit removes all of those options.
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Send us the document. We will tell you exactly what it needs.
A bidding document, a contract, a stalled bill, a stack of unrecorded measurements — whatever the position, a senior engineer will review it and come back within one working day with a written assessment, a timeline and a fixed price. There is no charge for this and nothing to sign.
NDA signed before any document is shared
Response within one working day
Fixed written fee, no hourly billing