Resourcing - Evan's Consulting Engineers Limited

Approach

Our client support solutions are based on sub-contracting small, limited companies with a small number of decision making directors, who are however, specialists in their fields. They are designed to provide the best business outcomes for our end clients in a collaborative and innovative approach.

The experience gained by Evan’s Consulting Engineers Limited while outsourcing Evan Vrysoulis as the Company Director to various clients since 2012, has provided a platform for us to develop the appropriate knowledge and skills to setup our sub-contracting branch.

We ensure our supply chain have the required technical, quality, environmental, health & safety and legislative skills to fulfil our clients’ requirements and needs. Hence, the company engages with various small, limited companies and individuals who are our service providers and who form our supply chain. Our supply chain, either assist with our services, and/or are outsourced to other consultants and contractors.

Our supply chain service providers are selected based on either:

direct previous experience, or

by a rigorous assessment of their capabilities in their respective technical disciplines and an appraisal of our sub-contractor questionnaire.

Innovation ▶

We’re passionate about our sub-contracting service and we believe it is the way forward for supply services, in a current volatile market and employment environment.

Our solution provides great benefits to our clients but also to the directors of our supply chain by reducing their taxation and the stigma of IR35 and ensuring that they operate as limited companies.

Collaboration ▶

We engage with our clients to understand your project needs and determine the scope of services required to select the appropriate service providers form our pool within our supply chain. We continually assess our approach to ensure that the solution we create and deliver remains relevant to your requirements.

We assist our supply chain in improving their operating, management and finance systems in a robust manner. If the service provider is a director of a limited company, we ensure that the contracts are set within the HMRC requirements to ensure they clearly fall outside the realms of IR35 regulations but also monitor and guarantee that they have all processes in place to fall outside IR35 regulations.

We do not act as an intermediary, which is what recruitment agencies are. All our service provider engagements have detailed contract briefs with clearly defined scopes and terms including length of contract.

Expertise ▶

With our specialist supply chain we have extensive experience, expertise and market knowledge at our fingertips. It includes all aspects of design, project management and health & safety in the following industries:

Highways - Structural, Highways Alignments, Geotechnical, Temporary Works, Inspectors and Traffic;

Railways - Civil, Structural, Geotechnical, Stations, Track, Temporary Works, PE, Inspectors, PTS, CoSS, IWA, Signalling & OHLE and MEP;

Buildings - Architectural, Structural, M&E and Geotechnical;

Industrial - Structural, Architectural, M&E and Geotechnical;

Health and Safety - NEBOSH, IOSH, etc.;

The above expertise list is constantly being upgraded, to enable us to fill more gaps in the market and source hard-to-find skills. When a high skill set requested is not fully covered by one of our supply chain or our design services consultancy and/or if the our supply chain available are occupied on other contracts we strive to source available resources through market research. However, we will not fill a requested service, unless we are certain we can provide top range quality, either directly as a consultancy or through our supply chain.

When a high skill set requested is not fully covered by one of our supply chain sub-contractors or our design services consultancy and/or if the available sub-contractors are busy on other contracts we strive to source available resources through market research. However, we will not fill a requested service, unless we are certain we can provide top range quality, either directly as a consultancy or through our supply chain.

Quality, Safety and Environment ▶

Although, the main selection criteria of our supply-chain is their technical capabilities, where these are limited companies which require assistance in setting up their management, environmental and health and safety systems we engage with them to fill in gaps and ensure that they also achieve, quality, environmental, health and safety and legislative skills. This is undertaken without burdening financially the end clients.

This enables provision of a more holistic service to our clients and also assists our supply chain with running their limited companies more smoothly and within minimum industry anticipated business requirements.

Off-Payroll working (IR35) ▶

HMRC produced a consultation document on the 5th March 2019, which sets out details of the proposed regime for commentary. The following key implications are identified below together with our solution avoids the regulations. Since, there have been multiple updates:

The responsibility of making an IR35 status assessment sits currently with the end client, unless the engagement is via Outsourced Servicers.

Our solution for outsourced services does not require such decision-making requirement on behalf of our clients as our supply chain is outsourced as Service Providers directly by us.

The responsibility of making an IR35 status sits with.

We engage with external suppliers like QDOS and others legal advisors, who undertake the IR35 assessments for us.

Our contracts with the supply chain.

Our contracts are developed by our solicitors, such that they always fall outside IR35 regulations. Our contracts impose to our supply chain requirements to operate in ways that enable this to happen. If the service provider is a limited company director who when assessed fails to meet these requirements, then unless they are willing to provide services as temporary employees of ours we remove them from our supply chain.

FExamples of how outsourcing services works in practice are clearly detailed through the following link. IR35.

Clients

We represent and sub-contract a pool of highly skilled limited companies, with expert knowledge and skills on both consultancy and construction services, infrastructure, highways, railways, industrial applications, building and health & safety.

Our solution is not based on recruitment and we do not act as an employment agency. Our solution is based on an ever expanding pool of limited companies which form part of our supply chain. We work with our clients to understand your project needs and determine the scope of services required to select the appropriate sub-contracting limited company from our approved supplier pool of associated limited companies.

We continually assess our approach to ensure that the solution we create and deliver remains relevant to your requirements. We consider our solution extremely innovative and current, which benefits our clients as it:

Eliminates employment agencies as intermediaries;

Reduces the cost of employment agency fees;

Reduces the cost of client external support, as we provide any additional resources when required, i.e access to IHS, H&S support etc.;

Ensures a top quality service with individuals who are directors of their own limited companies and who are recognised as experts in their respective industries;

Removes the need for sponsoring PTS on the railway as this is undertaken by Evan's Consulting Engineers Limited;

Frees up our clients IT resources as our supply chain can be based at our offices or provided with online access to specialist software when required;

The supply chain directors being sub-contracted understand your business needs better than employees that have never had such previous experience;

Reduces HR cost, as our sub-contractors are not contract employees but rather supply chain service providers, contracted by us and sub-contracted to our clients;

Ensures, our supply chain are Health & Safety and CDM ready, as Evan's Consulting Engineers Limited fills any gaps where these are identified;

Reduces the total resource cost for our clients, by avoiding uplifts of umbrella companies;

Avoids burdening our clients with awkward IR35 regulations, since intermediary regulations do not apply, since the services are business to business;

Allows for real substitution being always readily available and always planned in advance if a supplier originally sub-contracted to a client cannot attend to their duties;

Provides satisfied supply chain directors, contracting outside the inconveniences of IR35 regulations. Satisfaction reflecting positively in their performances;

To discuss your project solution needs and how we can assist you with your resourcing please contact us on 01527 584850 and ask for Evan Vrysoulis or John Fairbrother or email us on info@evans-consulting.co.uk.

Supply Chain

From April 2020, the IR35 ‘off payroll’ rules already applicable to the public sector will be extended to the private sector. This will directly affect a large number of contractors. Many large scale private corporations have already started requesting from their contractors, employed as limited companies most times via an intermediary (like an employment agency), to sign new contracts with them, deemed inside IR35.

Our solution is simple and effective and it bypasses IR35 regulations, so experienced and hardworking directors, of small limited companies can carry on providing their services to the industry, without having to worry about the status of their IR35 assessment.

Our solution is based on experience gained by Evan’s Consulting Engineers Limited while outsourcing Evan Vrysoulis as the Company Director of the limited company to various clients since 2012. This experience especially while contracting to Network rail as a PE has provided a platform for us to develop the right knowledge and skills to setup our sub-contracting branch of the consultancy which forms our supply chain.

We set up the requirements for our supply chain, and ensure that they have the required technical, but also quality, environmental, health & safety and legislative skills to fulfil our clients requirements and needs but also provide their services in a manner that clearly falls outside the realms of IR35 regulations.

The company engages with various small limited companies with two or less decision making directors which form our supply chain, in order to assist with our services, and/or sub-contract out to our clients.

The benefits to our supply chain are described below:

Avoid awkward IR35 regulations, by being contracted by Evan's Consulting Engineers Limited as business to business;

Maximise your earnings by taking control of your tax, national insurance and employers contributions to national insurance outgoings, by working outside IR35 regulations;

Avoid the burden of umbrella company commissions on top of employment agency fees;

As directors of small limited companies, carry on providing your services to your preferred public and private organisations without being deemed inside IR35 ‘off payroll’ rules ;

Have access to industry knowledge and information databases like, CIRIA, BS Standards, Network Rail Standards, IHS, H&S support etc;

Benefit from Health and Safety and CDM support;

Get sponsored for PTS by Evan's Consulting Engineers Limited;

Substitution is readily available by contracting from our supply chain pool;

Earn the respect of others and the industry and also the satisfaction of knowing that your limited company is operating as a business;

Benefit from setting up an integrated business management system, which includes quality, environmental, health and safety and legislative processes expected as a minimum by a respectable limited company;

Benefit from support pursuing industry recognised accreditations, like ISO 9001, ISO 14001, BS OHSAS 18001, RISQS, etc. and memberships like Construction Line, Builders Profile, etc.;