IronCore Systems helps project teams align vision with execution. Through accurate cost modeling, system integration insight, and risk-informed strategy, the work brings structure to complexity, so stakeholders can make informed decisions with confidence.
Cost Estimating & Budget Development
Conceptual through final design
- Independent Cost Estimates (ICE) and owner's estimates
- ROM to Class I estimates, 30 through 100 percent design
- Full electrical and I&C quantity takeoffs in Bluebeam and HeavyBid
- Labor modeling and productivity benchmarking against union rates and NECA standards
- GMP development and forensic GMP or proposal review
- Support for CMAR, DBB, DB, and PDB delivery
Constructability Review
Opposite the designer of record
- Structured, evidence-based review findings with designer response tracking
- Specification hardening and basis-of-design review
- Access, phasing, and sequencing analysis across design milestones
- Scope and constructability risk reviews
Project Controls & Capital Forecasting
Cost and schedule, tied together
- WBS and cost code structuring
- Cost and schedule baselines, progress and variance reporting, earned value
- Manhour curves, FTE modeling, and staffing plans
- Primavera XER schedule analysis via a proprietary engine: DCMA 14-point checks, float paths, Monte Carlo simulation, time-impact analysis
- Forecasting support for capital planning
Forensic Cost Analysis
Where packages drift
- Forensic GMP and proposal review, documented to the contractor's own package
- Line-by-line variance analysis and bid item normalization
- Change-order and claims-support cost analysis
- Indirects, general conditions, and staffing logic reconciliation
- Cost variance analysis: contractor versus ICE versus market
Risk & Value Engineering
Cheapest to fix early
- Risk register development and risk-adjusted cost analysis
- Contingency and owner-allowance separation with defensible bases
- Value engineering alternatives with quantified savings
- Peer review of engineer's estimates
Pursuit & Proposal Support
For consulting firms and program teams
- Proposal and SOQ development
- Cost narrative and bid package development
- Pricing strategy for complex or phased scopes
- Technical support during pre-bid RFIs and scope clarifications