Tier 1 Project Director Expertise. On Your Terms.
Providing expert Subcontractor Commercial Management, we deliver the strategy, the discipline, and the site systems to ensure subcontractors defend their profit margins and get paid for every dollar of extra work they do.
STOP CASH FLOWING THE CLIENT’S PROJECT
You do not necessarily need to win bigger contracts to increase your profit margins. Even the most capable subcontractors can leave 1% to 2% of their margin on the table with their current clients at their current turnover, because they don’t have real-time visibility into site productivity, and the client is dictating the commercial outcomes.
When budgets are tight, clients will direct their teams to push the pressure down to subcontractors and use the subcontract terms as a roadblock to protect their margins at your expense. In today’s environment, ‘doing the work’ is often no longer enough to guarantee payment. Margins vanish when variations are rejected on legal technicalities, retention is withheld over missing quality paperwork, and verbal agreements are ‘forgotten’ the moment a variation claim is submitted.
The margin you thought you made vanishes.
HEAVYWEIGHT COMMERCIAL DEFENCE & SYSTEMS
Operational Site Systems
We implement simple, paperless systems that document each day on site and track actual site productivity against your estimates. You will know exactly which pay items make money and which lose it, giving you early warnings on inefficiencies before they destroy your margin.
Commercial
Defence
Signing a contract and ‘keeping it in a drawer’ is a recipe for disaster. We demystify subcontract terms and manage the notice requirements for you. We put you in the strongest possible position to get paid for every variation and delay – before your cash flow runs dry.
Heavyweight Bidding & Strategy
MarginArmour provides heavyweight Tier 1 expertise on a turn-on-and-off basis. We coach you on submitting compliant, profitable bids, ensuring your pricing factors in the hidden costs of doing business. We turn your site productivity data into a competitive advantage during the tender phase.
Not Lawyers. Not Generic Business Coaches.
If you want basic business advice for domestic tradies, or a lawyer looking for billable hours after the damage is already done, you are in the wrong place.
MarginArmour is led by a former Tier 1 Project Director from CPB, Thiess, and Laing O’Rourke. We bring the exact skills, discipline, and operational experience used to self-deliver a $570M civil and building project, where every dollar of the $1M per month costs was precisely accounted for, resulting in a 32% margin.
We don’t just tell you what the contract says. We embed the systems that stop the disputes from happening in the first place, helping you defend and improve your profit margins.
STOP LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE.
Book an initial 15-minute commercial audit of your current site risk and paperwork systems.