Project Commercial Management
Embedded delivery alongside Project Managers and Project Directors. Cost, scope, change, risk, and commercial reporting through the project lifecycle. PM-side support, not arm's-length advisory.
Commercial & Contracts Advisory
Commercial counsel for capital programmes.
Senior commercial, contracts and procurement capability for Australian infrastructure, utilities, energy and government delivery — engaged where opening permanent headcount is too slow, too costly, or the wrong shape for the work.
What we do.
Eight service lines, all delivered hands-on by a senior commercial operator. No layers, no junior delegation, no advisory deck without execution.
Contract Administration & Claims
AS 4000 / AS 4902 / AS 4905. Variations, extensions of time, payment claims and schedules, head-contract to subcontract flow-down, obligations tracking, defects and close-out.
Procurement Strategy & Category Management
Enterprise procurement strategy. Category allocation models — centrally managed versus business-unit led. Category strategy maturity, supply chain segmentation, demand management, and value delivery against transparent baselines.
Source-to-Pay, Process Mapping & Operating Model
Source-to-pay process mapping and re-engineering. Target operating model design and procurement transformation. ERP / P2P platform selection and implementation. Workflow automation and AI augmentation against leading-practice benchmarks.
Supplier Performance, SRM & Catalogue
Supplier segmentation, performance scorecards, contract coverage at Tier 1 and Tier 2, preferred supplier catalogues, and renewal pipeline discipline. Long-term partnerships balanced with active compliance and dispute prevention.
Commercial Assurance & Risk
Independent should-cost review, schedule-of-rates validation, challenge to provisional sums and risk allowances, contingency discipline. Total-cost-of-ownership modelling, spend analytics, and market benchmarking. Pre-investment and in-flight programme assurance.
PPP / JV / Structured Delivery
Risk-allocation matrix, payment and performance mechanism, lifecycle obligations, evaluation framework, market sounding. 25-year transaction structuring under Treasury and ministerial oversight done before.
Commercial Governance & Reporting
Decision rights, RACI / RAPID, delegations of authority, KPI and incentive design. Commercial registers, obligations and risk-register architecture, board-grade decision packs. The governance artefacts delivery teams actually use.
How we engage.
Five forms. Day-rate, fixed-fee, or retainer — sized to the work. No long sales cycle. Direct engagement, no agency layer.
A
Interim
Backfill a senior commercial seat — Commercial Manager, Contracts Manager, Senior Procurement — typically 3–9 months.
B
Embedded
Project-side commercial delivery for a defined window. Site / office split where the project warrants.
C
Retained advisory
Ongoing senior commercial counsel without headcount — board, executive, or project-director-level support.
D
Project-specific
Discrete contract, procurement, or claims package — scoped, fixed-fee, with defined deliverables.
E
Commercial assurance
Independent review of a programme already in flight — risk, cost, contract, and governance assessment.
Where we operate.
The commercial discipline travels. Thirty years across heavy industry, regulated manufacturing, government delivery, capital infrastructure, and energy — applied to whichever asset class is in front of the sponsor.
Energy & Renewables
Wind · Solar · Biomass · Transmission
Water & Utilities
Authorities · Delivery partners
Infrastructure
Capital programmes · Civil works
Construction
Tier 1 · Tier 2 · Modular · Residential
Resources & Industrial
Mining services · Heavy industry
Government Delivery
Treasury · Ministerial · Agency
Regulated Manufacturing
GMP / ISO · Global supply
Developers & Land
Precinct · Servicing · Master-plan
What we work to.
The standards, contract forms, and procurement frameworks that bind the work — day-to-day reference texts, not a wall of logos.
Contract Forms
- AS 4000 General Conditions
- AS 4902 D&C
- AS 4903 Subcontract Conditions
- AS 4905 Minor Works / Subcontract D&C
- AS 4906 Maintenance
- AS 4910 / 4911 Supply & Install
- AS 2124 (legacy)
Procurement
- CIPS Global Standard
- CIPS Code of Conduct & Ethics
- Commonwealth Procurement Rules
- State Procurement Frameworks
- APCC Procurement Guidance
- PPP National Guidelines (IA)
- Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth)
- Indigenous Procurement Policy
Risk, Asset & Quality
- AS/NZS ISO 31000 Risk Management
- ISO 9001 Quality
- ISO 14001 Environmental
- ISO 45001 OHS
- ISO 55000 Asset Management
- AS 4183 Value Management
- AACE Total Cost Management
- ANSI/EIA-748 Earned Value
Delivery & Legal
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- MSP — Managing Successful Programmes
- AIPM — Australian Institute of PM
- Security of Payment Acts (state)
- Resolution Institute
- National Construction Code (NCC)
Selected experience.
Four markers of altitude. Detailed credentials and case studies available on request or in the capability statement.
$1.5B
Social Housing PPP
Commercial workstream lead for a first-of-kind $1.5B Social Housing Public-Private Partnership. Risk-allocation matrix, payment and performance mechanism, lifecycle obligations, evaluation framework, market sounding. 25-year contracts under Treasury and ministerial oversight.
$400M+
Social Housing portfolio
Embedded commercial lead across a Social Housing capital programme — 8–12 Tier 1 projects above $50M each plus Tier 2 / 3 balance, ~55 concurrent works. $85M directly procured; material realised savings through should-cost review, schedule-of-rates validation, and variation control.
~$500M
Global supply chain
GSK global procurement transformation across UK, India and SE Asia. US$50M+ direct category spend reengineered at 15% cost reduction under GMP / ISO. Legacy product and manufacturing transition programmes; supplier de-risking for revenue-critical lines.
30 yrs
Cross-sector commercial
Six sectors, four continents. Construction, energy, government, regulated manufacturing, industrial operations, capital markets. The discipline is the constant — the asset class varies project to project.
Who calls us in.
Senior sponsors with direct authority to engage outside headcount — when the work is bounded, the timing is short, or the right hire isn't available at the right altitude.
The pitch is simple: you would otherwise open a permanent role at $200–300k base for this. Engage the same capability on a defined window with no on-cost, no benefits liability, and no termination friction.
- →Commercial Directors
- →Project Directors
- →Procurement Directors
- →Heads of Contracts & Precontracts
- →Delivery Directors
- →Sector Practice Leads
- →Government Programme Commercial Leads
- →Developer-side Commercial Directors
Engage directly. No agency layer.
Initial conversation is a 20-minute call to scope the work and confirm fit. Capability statement and selected case studies available on request — typically within the same day.
Phone — Australia
+61 493 196 120
Capability statement
Request via the form — mention capability statement in your message and we'll attach the PDF in the reply.
Response time
Within 24 hours, weekdays. Urgent matters by phone.