ONGOING DUE DILIGENCE
What if Your Builders Financial Position
Changes AFTER You Appoint Them?
Even if you can get comfortable with your builders’ current financial position, very few developers have any meaningful way of protecting themselves should their builder run into trouble after they’ve signed the contract.
A thorough DD process is just the start; IPEX provide developers with ‘ongoing’ protection against the impact that other, less-feasible developments may have on their project.
IPEX is helping developers to ‘test’ financial due diligence findings before they award the contract AND provide ‘ongoing’ protection against any future deterioration in builder cashflow.
IPEX BENEFITS
‘‘Test’ builder due diligence outcomes to find ‘honest’ builders.
Stop payments from being used to cashflow other projects.
Validate ‘stat decs’ to confirm subcontractor payments.
Act on ‘step in’ rights before your builder goes under.
Protect funds already paid to builder in the event of insolvency.
No change to builder processes & no impact on builder payment.
TESTIMONIALS
“At Frasers, we take our commitment to every project, and every investor, builder, subcontractor, supplier, and customer we work with seriously. That means putting in place financial frameworks and processes to ensure that every dollar is used for its intended purpose, and there is full accountability and transparency over the budget for a project. We’re so excited about the Encompass development, which has a real ‘wow’ factor, and through IPEX we’re better positioned to deliver the project securely and successfully.”
“Based on our experience IPEX should be mandatory. It is now an integrated and essential part of our governance. It’s delivering a new standard of providing trust downstream to our subcontractors and suppliers that they’ll be paid and upstream to our clients and the financial institutions funding these projects.”
“Once we were aware of IPEX and decided to implement this new standard for project payments, it was a seamless onboarding and end-user experience. It reduces risk and addresses trust and relationship building in one platform. This will put us in a powerful position as the demand for construction labour increases.”
“IPEX delivers the security of funds subcontractors need on projects. Everyone prices risk into jobs; however, with the IPEX concept, there is a reduction of payment risk, which should translate into a more competitively priced trade insurance outcome. It’s really in everyone’s best interests in the long run to use IPEX.”
“As a developer, I want to know that my money is going to my project and not somebody else's. IPEX gives me this peace of mind so when things go wrong, I know exactly where my money is and how it has been spent.”
“From the moment I understood what IPEX provided I had no hesitation in introducing it to BlueScope. With such a major capital works project it was clearly a very prudent risk management tool. With hundreds of millions of dollars being paid to suppliers and subcontractors through major contractors, securing certainty that monies were being delivered into the accounts of the substantial number of subcontractors and suppliers was critical.”
“After a year of utilising the IPEX platform on one of our key commercial construction projects, the experience has been overwhelmingly positive. The platform’s user interface and our customer service experience have exceeded our expectations, significantly bolstering the security and efficiency of our collaboration with the builder. As a result of our positive experience, we will be rolling out the IPEX platform on additional commercial projects in the near future.”