ServicesCH 0+400 Automation & AICH 1+200 The OperatorCH 1+600 Track RecordCH 1+800 ToolboxCH 2+000 ContactCH 2+200
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G&C · Mobile VMS · NSW VARIATIONS UNPAID?

Your margin lives
in the paperwork.

G&C Pty Ltd provides contract administration, progress claims and commercial management to road and civil contractors across New South Wales — run by someone who has sat on both sides of the claim.

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CH 0+400Services

Tender to final account

Twelve services, in the order a job actually runs. Practical, hands-on commercial support that protects the number you priced — now with the record-keeping grind automated.

SVC-01

Tendering & estimating support

Pricing models, production-rate benchmarking and competitive positioning for civil and asphalt tenders — so the job starts on a number that holds.

SVC-02

Contract review before you sign

Risk allocation, payment terms, time bars and notice regimes flagged in plain language — GC21, GC21-based and Australian Standard forms — before they cost you, not after.

SVC-03

Contract administration

Day-to-day administration of construction contracts — notices, correspondence, variations and records that stand up when it matters.

SVC-04

Progress claims & assessments

Preparation and assessment of monthly progress claims, substantiation packages and claim-versus-assessment reconciliation.

SVC-05

Variations, delay & EOT claims

Variations scoped, priced and negotiated; delay events notified inside the time bar with entitlement preserved — built the way Tier-1 commercial teams expect to receive them.

SVC-06

Subcontract procurement & administration

Packaging, tender evaluation, negotiation and award of subcontract and supply packages — then administered downstream so your subbies' terms mirror your head contract.

SVC-07

Security of Payment (NSW) support

Payment claims and payment schedules prepared to survive the Act's deadlines, and support assembling adjudication material — the clock below shows why timing is everything.

SVC-08

Records & substantiation systems

Docket, production and QA registers set up so every claim line traces to a record — dockets, diaries, photos and as-builts organised before the argument starts.

SVC-09

Commercial management & close-out

Cost tracking, forecasting, subcontractor reconciliation, end-of-month reporting and final-account close-out — the last dollar, collected.

SVC-10

Automated records capture

Site records and supporting paperwork collected, read and filed into claim-ready registers automatically — every document, not a sample, and nobody typing the same thing in twice.

SVC-11

AI-assisted document review

Contracts, specifications, scope documents and tender packs read at volume to surface time bars, notice regimes, obligations and risk — then checked line by line by an engineer before anything is relied on.

SVC-12

Custom claim & reconciliation tooling

Purpose-built workbooks and scripts for the way your job actually reports: claimed against assessed, quantities against records, forecast against actual — built once, then run every month in minutes.

Engagements: single claim · monthly retainer · full project

Before you sign: send the contract to tenders@GandCptyltd.com.au — we'll flag the time bars, payment terms and risk before they're yours

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The call

Tell us where it hurts — the claim, the variation, the contract you haven't signed yet.

CH 0+600

Records review

We audit what you actually hold: dockets, diaries, notices, photos, correspondence.

CH 1+200

The position

Entitlement mapped against the contract; the number rebuilt to survive assessment.

CH 1+800

Submission

Served properly, on time, in a form the other side can't wave away.

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Resolution

Assessed, negotiated, closed — money in, records archived for next time.

CH 1+200Automation & AI

The grind, automated.
The judgement, human.

Commercial claims are lost in the admin, not the argument — the docket nobody filed, the register nobody finished, the month-end that ran out of hours. G&C builds its own automation and uses AI deliberately, so the volume work happens overnight and the thinking gets the time it deserves.

EDGE-01 · Coverage 100%

Every record checked against every claim line — not a spot sample. Leakage hides in the paperwork nobody had time to open.

EDGE-02 · Turnaround Hours

Substantiation packages and registers assembled in hours instead of the week you haven't got. Claims go in on time, inside the time bar.

EDGE-03 · Traceability 1 : 1

Every claimed dollar traces to a dated source record, automatically indexed. When the assessor asks, the answer is already attached.

EDGE-04 · Accountability Engineer signed

Automation extracts, matches and flags. A civil engineer with 11+ years on road projects decides. No number leaves here unreviewed.

What that looks like in practice

Registers built, not typed. Site records read, indexed and matched against what has been claimed — so work claimed without a record behind it, and work never claimed at all, both surface early enough to do something about.

Claim versus assessment. A reconciliation that tracks what was claimed against what was assessed, claim by claim, so a running shortfall is a number on a page — not a feeling at the end of the job.

Collection that runs itself. Source documents gathered and filed as they arrive, so month-end starts with a complete record instead of a search.

Built for your systems, not ours — the tooling runs on the records you already keep. Your data stays yours: project documents are never used to train anything and never left sitting in public tools, and every AI-assisted output is verified against the source before it reaches a claim, a notice or a counterparty.

Buried in paperwork? Send us one month of records — we'll show you what automation finds

CH 1+600The Operator

Built on the road,
proven in the claim

G&C Pty Ltd is led by George Yousef — a civil engineer and contract administration specialist with over a decade on major road and civil infrastructure projects across NSW, from motorway maintenance and asphalt surfacing to council upgrade programs for tier-one clients.

That time was spent on both sides of the table: building the claims as the contractor, and assessing them for the principal. It is exactly that double vision — knowing what the assessor will strike out before the claim is even submitted — that G&C puts to work for its clients.

The paperwork is current, not theoretical: GC21 and GC21-based forms on major projects, Australian Standard forms on council contracts — claims, variations and risk allocation negotiated month in, month out against Tier-1 and government counterparties, on works ranging from live motorways and live rail corridors — Mount Victoria and Narrabri–North Star — to a secure Defence site and an operating town centre.

He works fluently in Arabic as well as English — reading, writing and negotiating in either. On a lot of Sydney civil jobs that is the difference between a subcontractor nodding along and a subcontractor who has actually understood what he just signed.

He has also sat on the other two sides of the table: program management inside the consortium that operates Sydney Metro, and six years running his own civil contracting business — full P&L, a council civil works panel appointment, and the experience of chasing his own progress claims.

2023 CCF Project Manager of the Year. 2024 AfPA Emerging Leader finalist. Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), UTS.

Capability registerNo. GC-26-001
Years in road & civil
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Contract value administered
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Managed annually
$0CONCURRENT
Single-project scale
$0
Contracts run concurrently
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Road projects delivered
0MOTORWAY · ARTERIAL · COUNCIL
Rail projects delivered
0MT VICTORIA · NARRABRI–NORTH STAR
Figures per project records · verified Aug 2026
Capabilities carried into every engagement
  • Contract administration — GC21 & Australian Standard forms
  • Claims, variations & EOT
  • Contractual notices & entitlement preservation
  • Security of Payment (NSW) administration
  • Commercial governance & registers
  • Cost-to-complete & forecasting
  • Risk registers & early warning
  • Subcontract procurement & tender evaluation
  • Production-rate benchmarking
  • Advanced Excel cost & claims modelling
  • Automation & AI-assisted review
  • Stakeholder & community engagement
  • WHS, QA & environmental compliance
  • Live-traffic & night-shift delivery
  • Rail corridor & rail operating environments
  • Secure Defence-site compliance
  • ITS & managed-motorway civil interface
  • Portfolio delivery — 12 concurrent contracts
  • Fluent Arabic & English — spoken and written
CH 1+800Track Record

The jobs behind the numbers

Delivered by G&C's principal in senior engineering and project-management roles with tier-one builders and specialist contractors — listed here as operator track record, claimed as nothing more. The judgement transfers; the record is verifiable.

2026

Upper South Creek

Specialist subcontractor to John Holland on the Sydney Water program — delivery and commercial administration alongside an operating water-infrastructure client.

2025–26

M7–M12 Integration

Asphalt and surfacing works on the motorway integration program — specialist subcontractor to John Holland, under live traffic.

2023–25

M6 Surface Works

Surfacing works on Sydney's newest motorway corridor, to TfNSW specifications.

2023–25

Heathcote Rd & King Georges Rd upgrades

Arterial road upgrades for TfNSW — staged, night-shift works in live corridors.

2024–25

Cox's River Road Upgrade

Regional road upgrade delivered to TfNSW specifications.

2023–27

Council capital works programs

Head-contractor delivery for Georges River, Cumberland, Penrith and Shoalhaven councils — live public-domain works, residents and businesses kept onside.

2023–24

Orchard Hills Defence Base

$12.5m civil works on a secure, restricted-access Defence site — QA and claims in a fully regulated environment.

2022–23

Bowral — Station St Upgrade

$5.5m town-centre upgrade for council — delivery recognised with CCF NSW Project Manager of the Year 2023.

2022

Sydney Metro · MTR Corporation

Program management inside the MTR-led consortium operating Sydney Metro — a safety-regulated rail operating environment, on the operator's side of the table rather than the builder's.

2021–22

Narrabri–North Star · Inland Rail

Major regional rail-line upgrade in a live ARTC corridor with John Holland — work packages, subcontractors, cost control.

2020–21

Mount Victoria Area Remodelling

Rail remodelling in the Blue Mountains with John Holland — package owner reporting to the Construction Manager.

2018–20

M4 Smart Motorway Stages 2 & 3

Managed-motorway upgrade under live traffic with Seymour Whyte, to TfNSW (RMS) specifications — civil and structural delivery of the ITS infrastructure: overhead gantries, VMS and lane-use-signal structures, roadside sites and ramp signals, with the conduit, pit and cable network feeding them. ITS and electrical subcontractors coordinated into the civil program, through to device commissioning and handover to the operator.

2018–20

Narellan Road Upgrade

TfNSW arterial upgrade with Seymour Whyte — site engineer on the bridge structures alongside live traffic: set-out, dimensional tolerance and surface finish, hold points, ITPs and lot conformance through to as-built.

2017–18

Toowoomba Second Range Crossing

Major greenfield motorway in Queensland — work-package delivery on the fibre-reinforced polymer package, with Acciona as principal contractor and client: subcontractor and supplier coordination, QA and ITP conformance.

Selected projects · full history on LinkedIn

CH 2+000Toolbox

Four tools, free to use

The calculations we run for clients every month, built so you can run them yourself. Every business-day count below follows the Act's definition — weekends out, NSW public holidays out, 27–31 December out — which is where most desk calculations quietly go wrong.

Guides, not legal advice. Your contract can shorten every one of these dates, and standard forms are nearly always amended. If a date below matters to you, have someone read the executed contract.

G&C ToolboxGC-TL-01 – 04

Payment claim served? The clock is already running — for both sides. Put in the date it was served and see the statutory deadlines under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW). Miss the schedule date as a respondent and the claimed amount becomes a debt.

Served, not posted — service is what starts the clock
Payment schedule due — respondent (10 business days)—
Payment due — head contractor from principal (15 BD)—
Payment due — subcontractor (20 BD)—
Contract wins if it is shorter — s 14(4) is "the time in the contract or 10 business days, whichever expires earlier", and s 11 allows an earlier due date by agreement. Exempt residential subcontract work runs to 10 BD, not 20.

They didn't schedule, or they scheduled short. Adjudication has its own clock, and it branches depending on what the respondent did. Pick the scenario and get your window and your next move.

Adjudication is unforgiving on dates and these are the statutory longstops only. An application is also subject to the Act's other requirements. If you are close to any of these dates, get advice today rather than tomorrow.

Retention is the money everyone forgets to chase. Work out what will be held at the cap, what should come back at practical completion, and the date the balance is due.

Maximum retention held (at the cap)—
Work certified before the cap is reached—
Released at practical completion—
Balance released at end of defects liability—
Final release date—
The standard-form pattern, not your contract. Release percentages, cap and DLP length are all negotiable and frequently amended — and a bank guarantee in lieu of cash retention changes the position again.

Would your claim survive an assessor? Tick what is actually true of the claim you are about to serve — not what you intend to do before you serve it. Nothing is sent anywhere; this runs in your browser.

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Twelve checks. The weighting follows what actually gets claims struck out — records and notices carry the most.

A high score is not a guarantee and a low one is not fatal — it is a prompt for where to look first. The two heaviest items, records and time bars, are the two G&C is most often called in to rebuild after the fact.
Guides only, not legal advice · business days per s 4 of the Act — weekends, NSW public holidays and 27–31 Dec excluded · public-holiday rules current to 2027 · always check your executed contract

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CH 2+100FAQ

Asked at the gate

FAQ-01

A claims consultant or a lawyer?

Most claims are won or lost on records and contract mechanics long before a courtroom. G&C builds and argues the commercial position; if a matter escalates, your lawyers inherit a clean, substantiated file instead of a shoebox. When you genuinely need a lawyer, we'll be the first to say so.

FAQ-02

What does an engagement look like?

It starts with a records review — what you hold, what you're owed, what's at risk. From there, three shapes: a single claim or variation, a monthly retainer across your jobs, or whole-of-project support from tender to final account.

FAQ-03

Do you act for principals too?

Yes. The years were spent on both sides — building claims as the contractor, assessing them for the principal. Councils and principals get the same rigour on assessment and contract administration that contractors get on claims.

FAQ-04

We're already in dispute — too late?

Rarely. The records you already hold usually say more than you think — dockets, diaries, photos, emails. A records review will tell you quickly whether the position is worth running, and how far.

CH 2+200Contact

Let's talk about your project

Start with the claim that's bothering you — or the contract you'd rather not sign unread.

Download capability statement PDF · 2 pages · for prequalification & tender submissions
PrequalificationGC-PQ-01
Legal entity
G&C Pty Ltd — Australian private company
ABN
30 656 398 088 · active since 7 January 2022
ACN
656 398 088
GST
Registered since 7 January 2022
Principal
George Yousef — Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), UTS; Diploma in Engineering Practice · Engineers Australia Chartered application in progress
Cards, licences & certs
NSW White Card (construction induction) · Class C driver licence · AfPA bituminous & asphalt placement certifications
Recognition
CCF NSW People's Awards — Project Manager of the Year 2023 · AfPA Emerging Leader Finalist 2024
Service area & hours
Sydney and New South Wales · Monday–Saturday 6am–6pm · site visits by arrangement
Engagements
Single claim · monthly retainer · full project

Sydney, New South WalesMon–Sat · 6am–6pmSite visits by arrangement

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