Building Trust forSafer Infrastructure
Expert commercial and contract management solutions with NEC4 expertise. We ensure your projects are delivered on time, within budget, with clear control over cost, risk, and dispute.
Building Trust for Safer Infrastructure
SN QS & Estimating Services Ltd is a specialist consultancy providing commercial and contract management solutions with a focus on NEC4 and FIDIC contracts.
Operating across the full project lifecycle, we help contractors, subcontractors, and clients achieve clarity, control, and commercial certainty on complex projects.
Our team combines NEC4 and FIDIC expertise with hands-on delivery experience, ensuring frameworks are applied effectively on site and value is realised across every tier of the supply chain.
"What is well measured is well managed."
Structured, transparent commercial management ensures better decisions, stronger compliance, and improved project outcomes.
Commercial Certainty
Clear control over cost, risk, and dispute from inception to completion.
Practical Delivery
Hands-on experience ensuring frameworks work effectively on site.
Professional Development
Job-ready training that bridges theory and real-world application.
Ready to Strengthen Your Project Delivery?
Whether supporting a local authority framework, major rail programme, or telecoms rollout, our goal is to optimize performance, compliance, and efficiency throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Our Services
We provide tailored commercial and contract management services that strengthen delivery, governance, and value across construction and infrastructure projects.
Cost Management, Estimating & Forecasting
Accurate planning, proactive control, transparent reporting.
- Build reliable cost plans from the very start
- Deliver accurate estimates to support tendering and early design
- Forecast risks, pressures, and commercial movement before they impact delivery
- Provide clear, transparent reporting to enable confident decision-making
Procurement & Tendering
Robust strategies, fair evaluation, contract award support
- Prepare tender strategies, documentation, and evaluation criteria
- Facilitate fair and transparent tender competitions
- Support negotiations and contract award
Contract Drafting & Administration
NEC4 and bespoke contracts, obligations, approvals
- Draft and review NEC4 and bespoke contracts
- Establish effective administration systems
- Manage obligations, deadlines, and approvals
Change Management
Timely identification, accurate valuations, dispute minimisation.
- Early identification and clear notification of change events
- Preparation of robust quotations and valuations fully aligned with NEC4 requirements
- Structured processes that ensure changes are assessed, agreed, and implemented efficiently
- Reduced risk of disputes, delays, and commercial uncertainty
Interim & Final Valuations
Accurate payments, cash flow certainty
- Prepare accurate interim valuations
- Verify subcontractor accounts and progress
- Prepare and agree final accounts
Claims & Dispute Avoidance
Proactive entitlement management, early resolution
- Early identification of entitlement issues
- Clear and substantiated claims preparation
- Advisory support and mediation to avoid escalation
AI in Construction
Transforming project delivery through data-driven intelligence.
- Automated cost forecasting – Predict cost pressures and risk trends using data-driven models
- AI-assisted contract management – Analyse NEC4, FIDIC, TSC, and PSC obligations, early warnings, and change events
- Document intelligence & compliance checking – Automated review of contracts, valuations, and CE documentation
- Programme & delay insight – Identify schedule risks using predictive analytics across P6 programmes
- Commercial dashboards & reporting – Real-time dashboards linking cost, schedule, and contractual data
- AI readiness & integration support – Assess current processes and help teams integrate AI into existing systems
Ready to Strengthen Your Project Delivery?
Whether supporting a local authority framework, major rail programme, or telecoms rollout, our goal is to optimise performance, compliance, and efficiency throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Sectors We Serve
We support public and private sector organisations across the UK's most critical infrastructure programmes with NEC4 & FIDIC expertise and practical delivery experience.
Public Sector & Local Authority Frameworks
NEC4-aligned governance, risk, and cost assurance
- NEC4 governance and compliance frameworks
- Risk assessment and cost assurance processes
- Robust supply chain management and reporting
Highways & Civil Engineering
Forecasting, compensation event management, value engineering
- Accurate forecasting for complex civils projects
- Proactive compensation event management
- Value engineering workshops and implementation
Rail & Transportation Infrastructure
Contract administration, claims management, KPI reporting
- NEC4 contract administration for rail projects
- Claims management and dispute resolution
- KPI reporting and performance dashboards
Utilities: Water, Power & Energy
Procurement, contract drafting, Earned Value Management
- Procurement strategies for regulated sectors
- Contract drafting and risk allocation
- Earned Value Management implementation
Telecoms & Digital Infrastructure
Scalable support, Tier 2 & 3 alignment, change management
- Scalable commercial support for rollout programmes
- Tier 2 & 3 supply chain alignment and coordination
- Change management and scope control
Supporting Critical Infrastructure Delivery
By combining NEC4 and FIDIC contract fluency with hands-on project delivery experience, we ensure that infrastructure programmes are delivered with clarity, compliance, and commercial certainty across all sectors.
Training Programmes
Our practical, industry-aligned training programmes bridge the gap between theory and delivery. Built around NEC4 contracts, live systems, and real project scenarios.
Quantity Surveyor Practical Training
- NEC4 fundamentals and contract procedures
- Hands-on training with CEMAR and commercial reporting tools
- Preparing payment applications, forecasts, and CE submissions
- Client–supplier negotiation role-plays
Project Planner Practical Training
- Primavera P6 setup, baselines, and logic linking
- NEC4 programme management and compliance
- Scenario planning for early warnings and compensation events
- Performance dashboards and reporting
Earned Value Management & NEC4
- Practical EVM principles (CPI, SPI, EAC)
- Applying EVM in NEC4 cost-reimbursable projects
- Integrating P6 data with cost reporting
- Producing EVM dashboards for stakeholders
NEC4 Option A vs C Delivery Workshop
- Understanding Option A (fixed price) vs Option C (target cost)
- Risk-sharing, forecasting, and governance differences
- Managing commercial reporting under both models
- Choosing the right approach for project delivery
AI for Construction Professionals
- Understanding the role of AI in commercial & project management
- Using AI for cost estimating, forecasting, and risk modelling
- AI-assisted NEC4 & FIDIC contract interpretation
- Creating smarter workflows with CEMAR, P6, and reporting systems
- Automating repetitive tasks (document drafting, CE prep, dashboards)
- Data structuring fundamentals for construction teams
- Ethical use, compliance, and validation of AI output
Why Choose Our Training?
Accelerate Your Team's Readiness
Equip your professionals with practical, job-ready skills that ensure success in today's construction environment.
Client Testimonials
Hear from our clients across the infrastructure sector about the impact of our commercial solutions and training programmes.
"Their commercial insight and hands-on support were invaluable to our NEC4 programme delivery. They brought structure and clarity that kept the project on track."