Procurement

• Selection, design and implementation of effective procurement methodologies.
• Experience, intelligence and sharp analysis that sees past the trends of the day and cuts through the faulty assumptions that compromise major projects.
• Real-world insight into the risks and rewards of various procurement methodologies.

Tenders

• Accurate, savvy prioritization of conditions to ensuring timeliness, cost and profitability.
• A lean approach to bid documentation, reducing unnecessary qualifications which erode bid quality.
• Bids that serve as a sound platform for future budgetary, energetic and resource investment.

Entering the Australasian Marketplace

• Support for international companies navigating unfamiliar commercial, regulatory and legal terrain.
• Guidance on and analysis of risk in the Australian market environment.
• Contractual documentation finessed to suitability both for international boards and local conditions.

Risk Analysis and Mitigation

• Savvy risk identification and analysis that avoids endless, historic hypotheticals and leads to agile solutions.
• A real-world, sensible, targeted approach to risk that fosters congenial commercial relationships.
• Practical, prioritised risk mitigation strategies that produce commercially acceptable contractual qualifications.

Contract Administration & Support

• Timely, clear, commercially astute advice throughout contract administration.
• Hands-on assistance administering contracts to neutralize the vast majority of potential disputes before they arise.
• Customised training for personnel, including the provision of tools such as annotated contracts, pro forma documents and flowcharts.
• Vigilance to ensure the client’s contractual position is executed as writt

Transaction Management

• Solid, insightful, detail-conscious advice for the design, scheduling and management of transactions.
• Comprehensive transaction planning that clearly identifies transaction tasks, timeline, personnel and resources and harmonises all transaction documentation.
• Minimisation of risk (including political); maximisation of shareholder satisfaction.

Dispute Management

• Fostering positive relationships between contractors and project owners that build common ground within the at-times competing pressures of each party’s commercial interests.
• Smart, agile problem avoidance and resolution strategies that identify and mitigate potential disagreement before it becomes costly, drawn-out conflict.
• A thoughtful, analytical approach that ensures those disputes that prove inevitable do not damage relationships in the long-term or distract senior management.
• Contracts based on prioritised, real-world, project-specific risks, custom designed by someone with sweeping experience on dispute resolution teams and an instinctive grasp for what makes contractual resilience.
• Prescient analysis and reporting of disputes coupled with expert advice to enable senior management to maximum ROI when allocating funds into dispute resolution.
• JBM draws on probability tools developed by the insurance industry to complement their analysis of risk and ROI.

Project Management Office Support

• Comprehensive review and refinement of project implementation processes.
• Guided project administration to identify risks and non-compliance within prescribed protocols.

Contract Negotiation, Claims Analysis & Negotiation

• Strategic, tactical approach to negotiations that prioritises efficiency and the client’s real priorities.
• Maximising your commercial position, minimising your risk, preserving clarity and simplicity, minimizing the potential for future disputes.