Surety Claims & Contractor Default

Independent construction analysis when contractor performance becomes bond exposure.

GCM Group supports sureties, claims professionals, counsel, and completion teams with practical, evidence-based analysis of distressed construction projects. We organize the record, test the contractor’s position, quantify exposure, and help decision-makers evaluate the most defensible path forward.

Surety Rapid Project Assessment

A focused initial review of the available contracts, bonds, schedules, payment records, change orders, correspondence, and project controls. The assessment identifies the critical facts, immediate risks, information gaps, potential cost and schedule exposure, and recommended next steps—providing a disciplined starting point before the matter expands.

Contractor Default & Completion Strategy

Independent analysis of project status, remaining scope, contractor capability, schedule condition, cost to complete, subcontractor and supplier issues, and the practical considerations affecting takeover, financing, tender, or other completion approaches.

Cost, Schedule & Entitlement Analysis

Evaluation of delay, concurrency, critical-path impacts, change-order entitlement, disputed scope, productivity, damages, and the relationship between claimed amounts and the contemporaneous project record.

Clear, Decision-Ready Deliverables

Focused memoranda, chronologies, cost and schedule analyses, exposure assessments, visual exhibits, expert reports, rebuttals, and support for mediation, arbitration, or litigation.

Specialized Technical Support

Cost estimating, cost-to-complete analysis, schedule analysis, claims evaluation, and damages quantification are core GCM capabilities. When a matter requires architectural, engineering, code, structural, or another specialized discipline, qualified professionals can be brought into the engagement. GCM Group does not provide architecture or engineering design services.

Independent Support From First Review Through Resolution

Assignments can begin with the Surety Rapid Project Assessment and expand as the record develops. The objective is consistent: give the surety team a clear view of the project, the claim, the available options, and the financial implications.