From tender programmes that convince bid panels to Clause 31/32-compliant live programmes that protect your entitlement — Vertx delivers senior planning capability without the overhead of a permanent hire.

Tender planning

A tender programme is a sales document and a risk register in one. We build tender programmes that demonstrate deliverability to evaluation panels while protecting your commercial position — logic-linked, resource-considered, and aligned with your methodology and prelims. We work embedded with your bid team or at arm’s length, to your confidentiality requirements.

Live project planning

Baseline programme development and NEC Clause 31 submissions

Monthly progress updates and Clause 32 revised programmes

Critical path and float management

Early warning and compensation event programme impacts

Progress reporting your client’s project manager will actually accept

Claims planning

The best claims are built from records kept while the project runs — not reconstructed afterwards. We set up and maintain the programme records, delay registers and event logs that make later entitlement straightforward to demonstrate, and prepare compensation event quotations and EOT submissions as events occur.

Project controls

Integrated planning, progress measurement and reporting frameworks for projects and portfolios — earned value where it adds insight, dashboards where they aid decisions, and always proportionate to the size of the job.

A flexible, senior resource

Boutique scale means flexibility. Use Vertx for a two-week tender push, a monthly planning retainer, or an embedded role through a critical phase. Our director leads every commission, supported by an established delivery team — so capacity scales without quality diluting.

Common questions

Do you work with NEC contracts?

It’s our core territory: NEC3 and NEC4 ECC, including Clause 31/32 programme requirements, early warnings and compensation events. We also support JCT and bespoke forms.

Which software do you use?

Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject and Microsoft Project, to your or your client’s standard.

Can you provide a planner on retainer?

Yes. Monthly retainers are our most popular arrangement — senior planning input at a predictable cost, without a permanent hire.

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Speak directly with the person who will do the work.

No account managers. No hand-offs. Every Vertx commission is led personally by our founding director — from the first call to the final deliverable.