Output-Based Shared Risk Consultancy -Magnus

Shared. Risk. Solutions.

Consultancy Solutions to the Construction & Civil Engineering Market

48%

Construction Adjudications are caused by a lack of Competence of project participants *KCL Report 2024

Who carries the risk when the competence falls short?

When a client has a knowledge or capacity gap, the usual options share very little of the risk. Consultancies charge by time, so the client pays whether or not the scope is delivered. Recruiters supply people, not outcomes. Accountability weakens and the client’s margin is eroded.

Magnus. Shared Risk Solutions. We agree the scope, the measure and the price, then deliver against them, in delivery, pre-construction or business development..

Magnus Performance Data

Managing Risk Together

Risk management and mitigation is at the forefront of Project and Business leaders in Construction.

Yet when contractors lean on their supply chain within the consultancy lane it often met with reward on effort and best endeavours.

Magnus finds the middle ground where best endeavours meet obligation.

We maintain independent diaries, records and geo-located photographic evidence of our activities

Knowledge Gap: Price & Deliverables. Mobilising teams for output-defined contracts based on client programme, scope items and necessary documentation to meet the main-contract specification.
Capacity Gap: Time Charge: Professional Service Contracts under defined scope with errors, omissions and defects as standard with handover costs included as obligation. Additional deliverable items can be included as milestone payments

“A party to a dispute, particularly if there is arbitration, will learn three lessons (often too late) the Importance of Records, The Importance of Records, The Importance of Records”

Max Abrahamson, Engineering Law and The ICE Contract

Delivering Competency

Collaboration & Liability

All Magnus work is delivered under NEC4 PSSC Professional Services Short Contract. Scope, price, defect correction and limit of liability are set out in the Contract Data before work starts.

Record the Measure.

Records and are time-stamped and geo-located. Performances is measured against the agreed scope on and weekly basis within Magnus Quality Management System so month-end payment assessments rests on evidence that already exists.

Health, Safety & Wellbeing

Safe delivery is part of the scope, not an add-on. Magnus is Constructionline Gold accredited, and we apply the health, safety and environmental requirements of the main contract on every engagement.

Our contracts also include a Z Clause for Magnus to terminate where a client’s health and safety standards put our people at risk.

We record our Consultant and Sub Consultant H&S concerns and workload stretch data on a weekly basis when working under Client CDM

Teams, Bona-Fide Consultants or a Fusion

Teams: a Magnus team delivering a defined scope within our core lanes.

Bona-fide consultants: individual consultants engaged on a stand-alone basis.

Fusion: Where a team is required, but there is lot of change and variation in contract making a price difficult to achieve; Magnus includes a technical lead at no additional prelim cost to manage interfaces and keep performance on track. Giving Magnus full selection autonomy outsources risk allocation further, opening up work beyond the reach of recruitment procurement channels.