Solvix International provides forensic cost investigation services for clients who need a clear, evidence-based understanding of the financial side of a project dispute, suspected overstatement, problematic valuation, or commercially complex claim. We review the contract, valuation framework, payment history, change records, accounting evidence, and supporting project records to reconstruct what was claimed, what was certified, what was paid, what was withheld, and what is actually supportable.
This service is relevant when parties need more than routine commercial review. It is designed for contentious, high-value, or technically demanding matters where the cost story must be tested against source records, contractual valuation rules, and factual causation.
This service can be delivered as proactive commercial governance on live projects, an independent review of a troubled cost position, or a targeted verification exercise linked to payment, change, funding, audit, or dispute concerns.
In many construction disputes, the challenge is not simply the absence of data but the absence of structure. Critical information is spread across correspondence, schedules, notices, progress updates, payment records, meeting minutes, instructions, and technical documents. Solvix helps turn that fragmented material into a disciplined narrative and evidence base that legal teams can work with effectively.
Core elements usually expected in independent construction expert reporting
Define the question, scope, and assumptions.
Show the records and data relied upon.
Explain how the analysis was performed.
Set out the material results and observations.
State the conclusion clearly and independently.
Our approach is structured to produce a defensible financial narrative rather than a spreadsheet dump. We begin by understanding the contract and the issue frame, then map the relevant records, build the cost trail, test the evidence, examine causation, and report our findings in a form suitable for management, counsel, or formal proceedings.
Clarify the disputed theme, claim heads, accounting period, and decisions the client needs to make.
Review how the contract deals with pricing, remeasurement, variations, preliminaries, prolongation, payment, withholding, and supporting evidence.
Organise the relevant source records and reconstruct the path from incurred cost to claimed value to certified or paid value.
Check rates, quantities, allocations, duplication risk, omitted credits, missing source support, and internal consistency.
Assess whether the financial effects are properly linked to the event or issue being advanced.
Provide a clear opinion, issue matrix, evidential schedules, and practical next steps for claim, defence, negotiation, or formal proceedings
Ordinary review often focuses on administration and current valuation. A forensic cost investigation goes deeper into source evidence, causation, duplication, supportability, and the defensibility of the financial position in dispute.
Yes. It can be used to strengthen a claim before submission, test a received claim, or build the financial narrative for negotiation, ADR, arbitration, or litigation.
Yes. Financial findings can be integrated with delay, disruption, EOT, quantum, expert witness, and broader dispute-resolution support where the matter requires a joined-up analysis.
At Solvix International, we specialize in delivering exceptional project management and consultancy services.
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