Services

SERVICES
Frost Associates’ development reflects changing times since its formation. The basic quantity surveying services scheduled under the three categories in the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors publication Appointing a Quantity Surveyor: A Guide for Clients and Surveyors are central to the service offered. However, whilst providing a consistently high standard of traditional cost planning and control services over a number of years we have developed considerable expertise in a range of additional services. The following table gives a brief outline of the additional expertise that Frost Associates can offer throughout the life of a project.
Service		Detail
1	Project management	Acting on behalf of the Client with a duty of care to provide a cost effective and independent service as outlined in the RICS publication “Project Management Agreement and Conditions”.
2	Condition survey	Detailed surveys of existing property to establish the cost of achieving the required level of repairs and improvement and establishing user friendly data bases e.g. Decent Homes Standard for affordable housing.
3	Stakeholder consultation	Structured consultation with occupiers, owners and funders.
4	Development	Option viability assessment Assessing the viability of development options by business plan models.
5	Risk assessment and management	Setting up the risk analysis and management process to be continuously updated throughout the life of the project.
6	Feasibility studies	Cost and funding calculations.
7	Option appraisal	Objective appraisal of the range of potential development options using cost/benefit analysis for monetary and non-monetary criteria.
8	Preparation of outline and detailed applications to regulatory/funding bodies	Completion of outline and detailed applications in standard formats e.g. Single Transfer Model, PFI and ALMO for local authority housing stock.
9	Assessment of application to regulatory/funding bodies	Assistance with project appraisal to regulatory/funding bodies e.g. Heritage Lottery Fund.
10	Value engineering and management	Continuous appraisal of value for money including facilitation of value engineering workshops.
11	Benchmarking	Establishment of benchmarks for cost and performance from extensive database and facilitation of appraisal process.
12	Programming	Construction of development programmes including critical path identification.
13	Business planning	Development of detailed business plans and sensitivity analysis e.g for large estate regeneration projects.
14	Capacity building with residents and consumer groups	Co-ordination of work with residents and consumer groups to aid their understanding of financial and funding aspects of regeneration.
15	Drafting bid enquiry documentation for large scale regeneration projects	Defining responsibilities and obligations of partners, cross subsidy requirements, overage arrangements, etc.
16	Bid assessment, evaluation and negotiation	Detailed appraisal and clarification of bids and subsequent negotiation with preferred bidder.
17	Negotiation with regulatory/funding agency	Preparation of funding applications and subsequent negotiation.
18	Negotiation and assistance with drafting of final development agreement	Negotiation and assistance to legal advisors in drafting final development agreement documentation.
19	Contract administration	Chairing and minuting of meetings, implementing change orders, valuations, cashflow projections into programme implications, quality control, financial reporting and settlement.
20	Project monitoring on behalf of the Client/funding organisation	Monitoring delivery of contracted outputs, control of changes etc. and production of regular status reports.