GB-Chertsey: Cost Advisor for the Resilience, Capacity and Sustainability of the Electrical Distribution System Project

The project is to reduce the risk of power failures affecting the business continuity of the Trust at St Peter’s Hospital. The project further encompasses future anticipated capacity/demand of the electrical system to provide effective 100% standby generator back-up by 2017. Use of the national grid and generators are to be sustainable, by providing assurance of high efficiency continuing supplies for a minimum of 15 years (i.e. 2033).

The Consultant will act as Cost Consultant/Advisor/QS. There will be separately appointed Lead Consultant, Principal Designer and Project Manager, and the Trust’s Authorising Engineer (AE) will peer review the Lead Consultant’s proposals. The Cost Consultant reports directly to the Trust Project Sponsor and Trust Project Manager.

The Consultant will prepare a budget Cost Plan from discussions and agreements with the Trust’s Project Team and obtain Trust approval of this before committing to Design stages.

The budget Cost Plan is to be submitted within four weeks after the order to proceed with the commission.

The Cost Consultant will assist the Lead Consultant in preparing a list/series of mitigating design risk options that identifies discrete actions or designs that will increase the electrical resilience of the site (or alternatively reduces the risk that power failures will have on the Trust’s Business). These options to be quantified in terms of their efficacy in increasing the Site resilience along with estimated costs of their possible enactment.

The Cost Consultant will prepare the tender and contract documentation.