PHC Services

How the Project Owner Pays for PHC

When you decide to implement the PHC Service for your project, you start with a three-month commitment, purchasing 10 hours per week from a Strategist and 30 hours per week from an Administrator. This initial period allows us to establish a dedicated PHC database for your project and start a system of weekly reporting.

Furthermore, it provides an opportunity to thoroughly evaluate your project and forecast ongoing PHC requirements accurately. As a general guideline, we believe a comprehensive PHC Service can be effectively implemented on a relatively large project by a team of five professionals, with an estimated total cost of $600k for a year.

In practice, the project owner enters into a contract for the PHC Service for a fixed term and a predetermined pattern of hours expenditure for all team members. An upfront lump sum payment of 20% of the contract value is required, with the remaining 80% divided into equal monthly installments for the duration of the term. As the contract nears its end, the project owner has the option to renew for a further term, with an adjusted monthly payment to reflect any changes in requirements.

We take immense pride in our efforts as part of your team, striving to ensure project success. Our pricing structure is straightforward, with hourly rates for the three roles – Strategist, Analyst, and Administrator – in a time-for-money arrangement without any uplift or constraint on hours worked, except when on-site presence is required. In such cases, our PHC Staff aligns with the project's working day and benefits from a generous per diem allowance.

Project Health Control in Detail

PHC Deployment on the Project

PHC is a service that runs in parallel to your existing systems and staff. The software that you see in the brochure is simply the tool that allows the PHC consultants to execute the service - hence it is incomparable to Microsoft Project, Primavera, TakeOver XP or any other "software packages" or  “systems of management” currently in use. Instead PHC is a consultancy service that is paid for through time billing. The project staffs the PHC function
in much the same way that it staffs its HSE or Admin department. 

Gradual Rollout

PHC is rolled out to project staff gradually with practically no training involved at all. Your staff work on the Project's own control and administration systems. Their interface to PHC is limited to login and simple navigation through items assigned to them. Information is gathered through a system of simple 'comment' submissions, either during individual access to the system or at technical and management meetings. We do all analysis and
meeting facilitation work leaving your staff to work on the project, not on PHC.

PHC Scalability

As PHC is a service where time is expended on the project, the cost will tend to rise in loose proportion to the size of the project. We say a practical minimum Project value for effective deployment of PHC is £10M, but it can be used on Projects even smaller than this at our discretion. The overhead of initial set-up and implementation is at our risk as the beneficial effects of PHC on your project become apparent very quickly (within two weeks).

PHC for Ongoing Projects

PHC does not need to be in place at the beginning of a Project. Certainly, it is better for the Project if it is deployed early, but it can be applied as a quick fix for wayward Projects at any time during the Project's life. The more of a 'foothold' PHC has early into your project, the more money it will save and the quicker the project's finish.