With offices in Leicestershire, Gloucestershire and Buckinghamshire, as well as in Viterbo, near Rome in Italy, together with the efficiencies of modern technology and Rob's extended personal professional network, ProFicientCM is able to support projects across the UK and internationally.
Rob Langstone
Rob is a highly motivated construction professional with a wealth of experience and a strong can-do attitude. His qualifications include an ONC in Building Studies, HNC in Quantity Surveying, and a B.Sc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying.
In a career spanning more than 40 years, Rob has worked in Private Practice also for Local Authorities, Main Contracting, Civil Engineering, Construction and Housing Developers among others. He has also been a part-time lecturer on Quantity Surveying at Cheltenham College of Arts & Technology.
Rob was also Quantity Surveying Director and then Commercial Director at Levolux Ltd, where he was a key part of the company's growth from £8m to £24m per year.
The restructuring of Levolux in 2019 then presented Rob with the opportunity to form ProFicientCM: an independent Quantity Surveying, Freelance Estimating and Commercial Cost Management service provider.
Here he could share his extensive experience with small and medium sized construction companies, sub-contractors and architects who wanted to benefit from the services of a seasoned Commercial Director without needing to employ one on a permanent basis.
We primarily work with Contractors, Architects, Property Owners and Developers, helping them to ensure their construction or renovation project is properly managed and properly costed.
Everyone's natural instinct is to spend as little as you can upfront, but our experience over the years has repeatedly shown that this is often a false economy.
Our competitive fee structure very often becomes cost neutral if we’re engaged early enough on your project.
Employing a collaborative approach throughout, we work side-by-side with our clients, helping them to identify everything they will need to ensure the project's success, including:
Reaching a realistic budget
Undertaking risk assessments
Managing the tendering process
Providing CAD drafting services when needed
...and generally working with them every step of the way, right through to project acceptance and final invoicing
Contractors
Feasibility Estimates
Detailed Cost Plans
Tendering
Project Risk Profiling & Management Planning
CAD drafting services
Contract Document Reviews & Term Negotiations
Applications
Invoicing
Award-winning Construction & Engineering Procurement Processes
Final Accounts
Cost-Effective Claim & Dispute Support
Ad hoc Cost Advice Support
Architects
Contract Administration
Feasibility Estimates
Detailed Cost Plans
Bills of Quantities
Ad hoc Cost Advice Support
Specification Drafting
Value Engineering
Final Accounts
Cost-Effective Claim & Dispute Support
Property Owners/Developers
Feasibility Estimates
Detailed Cost Plans
Compile Contract Documentation
Contract Administration
Compiling & Administering Tenders
CAD Drafting Services
Ad hoc Cost Advice Support
Cost-Effective Claim & Dispute Support
Experience, a commitment to close collaboration, subscribing to cost information services, pricing libraries and trade journals, attending CPD programmes, and constantly monitoring what the market place is doing, keeps us right up-to-date and ensures that what we produce for our clients is always relevant and correct.
Our subscription to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors BCIS Online service helps us prepare accurate cost plans, provide early cost advice to clients and benchmarking for both commercial and residential projects.
This, in turn, helps us to:
Determine what a building should cost.
Benchmark prices. It gives a view of the market and bid comparisons to help ensure that sum costs are in the right ballpark.
Predict the profitability of your project more confidently.
Expand your horizon. If your firm focuses on a particular sector, we can provide you with a wider view of the market.
Provide assurance and gives your quotes/tenders credibility.
BCIS is reliable; our data is not subject to commercial bias.
It is the only available source of independent data in the UK.
ProFicientCM uses Eque2's EValuate estimating and tendering software to ensure quality tenders with greater accuracy through one joined-up process – offering all our clients a thoroughly professional service.
Having invested in Eque2's Evaluate, the market leading estimating software, we can quickly produce your cost estimate or tender accurately.
All price enquiries sent out in the compilation of your estimate or tender are managed through our online portal, allowing your supply chain to respond directly into our systems via a web link and unique secure PIN access, eliminating the need to re-key data and the risk of input error, which all leads to a quicker and therefore more cost-effective process which we share back with you in our competitive fee structure.
As we have many clients working in different sectors with different cost libraries, with EValuate we are able to quickly import bills of quantities from Excel and produce fast and accurate tenders with rates that are proven to be effective. These libraries are stored in the software, meaning we can quickly access and store historical data. We also have Laxton’s Priced Libraries in place that we can use as a benchmarking tool to compare rates, if required.
EValuate has a powerful integrated On-screen Takeoff tool which allows us to perform a fast, accurate Takeoff from any file type where we can easily view the dimensions via an electronic trace, and allows us to send it back to our clients in a presentable format.
The software also includes an Online Subcontractor Enquiries Portal which allows us to manage our clients' subcontractor enquiry process via an online portal which we can brand with their logo, including the distribution of documents and revisions. Their submitted rates and documents will automatically populate the comparison screen in EValuate, which offers a professional seamless approach between us and our clients.
Using EValuate ensures we can produce quality tenders at a faster rate.