Is your contractor selection process setting your project up to fail?

The assumption is that once you've found a builder and agreed a price, the hard part is over.

Between us, we've spent 40 years on high-value residential projects, and contractor selection is consistently the decision clients underestimate most. In this episode, we break down why choosing on price and gut feeling is a costly mistake, and how a structured process, started months before tender, changes the outcome.

We cover procurement strategy, proper vetting (including financials and older completed projects), why a professional reference outweighs a client one, and what a bulletproof tender package looks like.

Get this right and you'll appoint a contractor suited to your project who's priced it properly. Get it wrong and you risk an unfinished site and a bill far larger than the one you started with.

"Contractors are custodians of your house for a period of time." – Tina Patel

 

You’ll hear about:

• Why contractor selection is often rushed
• Starting procurement before planning permission
• Defining your procurement strategy early
• What contractor's design portions mean
• Building the right tender strategy document
• Scoring tenders beyond price alone
• How to vet contractors properly
• Checking contractor financial health
• Visiting older completed projects
• Why professional references outweigh client ones
• How long pricing takes
• Keeping momentum after appointment

 

Connect with us:

 

Tima Patel - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinapatel/

Bart Kolosowski - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bartkolosowski/

 

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