Solvix International provides cost control and cost verification services for developers, employers, contractors, lenders, project managers, and legal or commercial teams that need dependable visibility over construction cost performance. We build or review the commercial control environment, test reported cost positions against records and progress, and provide structured analysis of budgets, commitments, valuations, changes, accruals, and forecasts so that stakeholders can act on reliable information.
Establish or strengthen commercial control systems that convert project cost data into management decisions.
Independently verify whether reported costs, payment positions, and forecasts are properly supported.
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.
Review the cost breakdown structure, package logic, code alignment, and baseline budget integrity.
Check interim valuations, payment applications, certificates, and supporting evidence.
Test whether change events are measured, priced, approved, and forecasted consistently.
Cost reports can look consistent while commitments, accruals, and pending change are understated. We test the reported position against the underlying records.
Review of contractor applications and certificates against measured progress and support.
Testing of the cost-to-complete and final cost forecast against current commitments and trends.
Check of change submissions for measurement, pricing, and approval status.
Independent cost reporting for funders, lenders, and boards.
Design or improvement of cost codes, reporting formats, and approval controls.
Reconciliation of budgets, commitments, and change in preparation for close-out.
The project reports say costs are under control, but commitments, variations, or accruals do not reconcile cleanly.
A client, funder, or senior leadership team needs confidence that the current forecast is realistic and evidence-based.
Interim valuations, contractor applications, or change-cost submissions appear inflated, duplicated, incomplete, or weakly supported.
Commercial teams need a clearer view of current exposure, contingency drawdown, trend movement, and likely cost at completion.
A troubled project requires stronger reporting discipline, ownership, audit trail, and decision-making triggers before overruns escalate.
The project may be heading toward a claim, negotiation, or forensic review, and the cost record must be made more reliable first.
Our methodology is evidence-led and practical. We start by understanding how the commercial system is supposed to work, then test how it actually works against live records, progress information, approvals, and reporting outputs. The result is not only a statement of what is wrong or unsupported, but a clearer route to improving control, strengthening governance, and producing more reliable forecasts.
assess the approved budget, cost codes, package strategy, reporting lines, contingency structure, and original forecasting assumptions.
gather valuations, commitments, approved changes, invoices, accruals, procurement records, progress data, and management reports.
review approval thresholds, delegations, periodic controls, change logs, cash flow tracking, and reconciliation routines.
compare quantities, rates, claimed amounts, certified amounts, and reported positions against evidence and project status.
explain why costs moved, where exposure sits, what remains uncertain, and how realistic the latest forecast appears.
issue a concise management report setting out findings, risk areas, verification results, and practical corrective actions.
The exact document set depends on the stage and purpose of the engagement, but robust cost-control and verification work usually depends on reliable links between budget structure, change records, valuations, progress status, and forecast logic.
Cost control focuses on the systems, reporting, and actions used to manage cost performance. Cost verification tests whether specific reported cost positions, valuations, or forecasts are actually supported by evidence.
Yes. Many clients instruct cost-control and verification reviews precisely to avoid later disputes by identifying weak records, unsupported positions, and governance gaps early.
Yes. The review can be structured for employers, developers, contractors, lenders, or advisors, depending on the purpose and available records.
We combine project-controls thinking, commercial awareness, contract sensitivity, and dispute-readiness, so the output works for both project teams and senior decision-makers.
Our work is designed to be clear, evidence-based, and usable: not just a list of issues, but a structured explanation of where the cost position is strong, weak, or uncertain.
We can support one-off verification exercises, recurring cost reporting reviews, or broader commercial diagnostics linked to procurement, changes, claims, or recovery planning.
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