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Project Development & Execution

Project Management Consultancy

Independent project planning, scheduling, cost control, quality assurance and contractor coordination from conception to commissioning and handover.

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The problem

What goes wrong without this.

On most delayed industrial projects, the delay was visible in the data months before it was acknowledged. What was missing was not information but an independent party whose job was to read it and escalate.

Contractors report progress in terms that favour them. Percentage completion is claimed against value billed rather than physical progress. Schedule slippage is absorbed quietly into float that no longer exists. By the time the owner sees the problem, the recovery options have narrowed to paying for acceleration or accepting the delay.

Project management consultancy puts an independent team between the owner and the contractors, reporting on physical progress against a baseline, controlling cost against sanction, and enforcing quality against specification.

What we do

Capabilities in this service

  • Project planning, work breakdown structure and baseline schedule development
  • Critical path scheduling with resource loading and progress measurement against physical completion
  • Cost control against sanctioned estimate, with variation and change order management
  • Contractor and vendor coordination across civil, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation packages
  • Tender preparation, technical bid evaluation and contract award recommendation
  • Quality assurance planning, inspection and test plans, and stage-wise quality audits
  • Site supervision, safety oversight and statutory compliance monitoring during construction
  • Progress monitoring and structured owner reporting with forecast-to-complete
  • Risk identification, mitigation tracking and recovery planning where slippage occurs
  • Commissioning coordination, punch list management and handover certification

Our process

How the engagement runs

Stage-wise, with the deliverable and typical duration for each. Timelines vary with project scale and authority response — these are indicative rather than contractual.

  1. 1

    Baseline establishment

    2–3 weeks

    Work breakdown, baseline schedule, sanctioned cost breakdown and the measurement rules that will govern progress reporting for the rest of the project.

    Deliverable: Baseline schedule, cost plan and project execution manual

  2. 2

    Procurement and contracting support

    4–8 weeks

    Package strategy, tender documentation, technical bid evaluation and award recommendation, with contract terms that allocate risk clearly.

    Deliverable: Tender documents and bid evaluation reports

  3. 3

    Execution monitoring

    Project duration

    Site supervision, physical progress measurement, quality inspection against approved plans, safety oversight and coordination between contractor interfaces.

    Deliverable: Periodic progress, cost and quality reports

  4. 4

    Cost and change control

    Project duration

    Variation assessment, change order evaluation, bill certification against measured work, and forecast-to-complete updated against actual performance.

    Deliverable: Cost control reports and certified bills

  5. 5

    Commissioning and handover

    4–8 weeks

    Commissioning sequence coordination, punch list generation and closure, documentation verification and handover certification.

    Deliverable: Punch list closure and handover certificate

Deliverables

What you receive

  • Baseline schedule and project execution manual
  • Tender documents and technical bid evaluation reports
  • Periodic progress reports with physical completion against baseline
  • Cost control reports with variation register and forecast-to-complete
  • Quality inspection and test records
  • Punch list and handover certification
  • Project close-out report with as-built documentation

Who this is for

Typical client profiles

Owners executing projects through multiple independent contractors
Companies without an in-house project management function
Lenders and investors requiring independent progress certification
Promoters whose project is already slipping and needs recovery

Part of

Project Development & Execution

From drawing to commissioning.

Why NITS Corp

Why bring this to us

Progress measured physically, not commercially

Completion is reported against measured physical progress rather than value billed. The two diverge early on troubled projects, and that divergence is the earliest warning available.

Independent of the contractors

Where we act as PMC, we do not hold the construction contracts. Our reporting has no commercial reason to be optimistic.

Recovery mandates accepted

We take on projects that are already behind. The first deliverable in those cases is an honest re-baseline, which is usually the step the project has been avoiding.

FAQ

Common questions

How does PMC differ from your turnkey service?
Under turnkey we hold the contracts and carry scope, cost and performance risk. Under PMC you hold the contracts and we manage execution on your behalf as an independent party. PMC gives you more control and visibility; turnkey gives you less risk and fewer interfaces.
Can you take over a project that is already behind schedule?
Yes, and it is a frequent mandate. We begin with an independent assessment of actual physical progress against the original baseline, which often differs materially from reported progress, then produce a realistic re-baseline and recovery plan.
Do you provide site staff or only periodic supervision?
Both models are available. Resident site teams suit projects with continuous multi-contractor activity. Periodic supervision with milestone inspections suits smaller or slower-moving projects. We will recommend based on project value and the number of active interfaces.
Will you certify contractor bills?
Yes. Bill certification against measured physical work is a standard part of the mandate and one of the more valuable controls, because it links payment to demonstrable progress rather than to claimed progress.

Discuss your pmc requirement.

A short conversation is usually enough to tell you whether the project is viable, what it will take, and what it should cost. There is no charge for that first discussion.