Commercial procurement for real estate developers
One scope. Entire projects. Full pipelines.
Make the number
earn your
signature.
Before you commit the hard costs, find out what the wider market can do. Strummet challenges the commercial position across one scope, your entire project or your full pipeline.
Why a good team can still leave the market untestedYou’re about to award it.
Make sure it holds up.
More than one award on the table?
Put the project or pipeline in front of us.Another commercial challenge.
Without dismantling your project team.
The question before the signature
Is it a good price?
Or just the price
you got?
A capable GC. Trusted trades. A GMP.
You can have all three and still not know what the broader market would have offered.
Procurement happens under pressure. Familiar bidders get called. Responses arrive unevenly. Scope gets levelled. The schedule keeps moving. Eventually, a number reaches your desk.
- Coverage
- Who else could credibly deliver this scope?
- Scope
- Are exclusions hiding the real comparison?
- Competition
- Has this number faced a meaningful challenge?
What Strummet changes
More market coverage. A clearer commercial comparison. Another challenge to the number. While you can still act on the answer.
There is a deadline. It is already on your desk.
The opportunity is
on this side of the signature.
A better commercial position matters most when you still have the ability to use it.
Before award
It’s still a buying decision.
You can widen coverage, clarify exclusions, compare credible alternatives and put the commercial terms under pressure.
After commitment
It’s a different negotiation.
The signed agreement sets the position. Finding a better option later is not the same as having it before you awarded.
You don’t need to know that money is being left on the table.
You need to know whether it is, before you sign.
Your entered amount. Still uncommitted.
The scope is yours to set
One scope is a start.
It isn’t the limit.
Why add commercial pressure to one award and leave the rest untouched? Bring the next package, the remaining hard costs or the projects ahead.
A focused commercial challenge
Make the next award prove itself.
Put a pending trade package, material purchase or other procurement scope in front of us. We assess whether there’s a credible opportunity to improve the position before commitment.
- Any scope worth challenging
- Fit assessed against scope and timing
- No wider commitment required to start
Engage at the depth the development needs. The mandate can grow from an individual decision into continuing procurement capacity, with the scope agreed at each stage.
No geographic box around the mandateKeep what works.
Add the challenge.
Your incumbent can still win.
The price has to hold up.
Strummet works alongside the project’s commercial structure. You keep the GC, the relationships and the final award decision. The selected trade contracts within your existing project structure.
A lower headline bid means little if the scope, capability or terms are wrong. We care whether the commercial position survives the challenge, and whether an alternative is actually worth taking.
Start with what is still open
Put it
in front of us.
You’re going to make the award. Give yourself the chance to make it with a stronger commercial position.
What happens next
We look at the scope, available information and award window. If there’s a useful mandate, we establish the remit and commercial terms before work begins.
Before the first conversation
The questions
worth asking.
We already have a GC, a GMP and several bids.
That is a starting position, not a reason to skip the question. Strummet adds commercial coverage around uncommitted hard costs, with a remit agreed around your existing structure. You do not need to replace your GC or displace a trade that earns the award.
What if our current price is already competitive?
Then the challenge may support the position you already have. If a credible alternative exists, finding it before award gives you the ability to act. We do not promise a lower number, and a weaker scope or unsuitable trade is not a better outcome.
Can you take on our full procurement programme?
Yes, that can be the mandate. Strummet can cover multiple packages, a project’s remaining uncommitted hard costs or continuing tender cycles across a pipeline. The scope, available capacity, responsibilities and timing are confirmed before engagement.
How do you charge, and how quickly can you start?
Both depend on the mandate. Fees, any performance-linked component and the basis for verifying value are agreed before work begins. Send the actual award date. We will assess what can fit the available window rather than promise a turnaround the scope cannot support.
Before you award it,
challenge it.
The next scope. The entire project. The full pipeline. Put the hard costs still in play in front of Strummet.
CHALLENGE MY PRICE