About The QS Desk
Commercial advice from people who've poured the concrete.
Most bid consultants have never priced a rebar schedule. Most estimators have never argued a final account. The QS Desk exists because the two jobs are one job — and it's done best by people who deliver the work they're pricing.
Who we are
The team behind AXYCAD
The QS Desk is the commercial arm of AXYCAD Ltd — a specialist reinforced concrete and civils contractor whose team has spent nearly two decades delivering major UK infrastructure: HS2, National Highways, the water industry.
That matters because commercial work done at arm's length goes wrong in predictable ways. A variation written up by someone who's never stood on a pour doesn't read like the site. A programme narrative from someone who's never sequenced formwork doesn't survive a buyer's questions. Ours do, because we've done the work we write about.
Verify us
Independently checkable, all of it
Registered under Quantity Surveying, Planning Consultancy and Project Management Consultancy. AchillesID 00251347.
Registration 1278176.
Supplier ID 10397.
Health & safety competence independently verified.
Every account is reviewed and signed by a chartered construction manager.
Documented IMS structured in alignment with ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 principles.
We don't claim certifications we don't hold, and we don't publish other people's figures as our own. If a claim on this site can't be checked on a public register or evidenced on request, it isn't on this site.
The straight answer
On conflicts of interest
AXYCAD is itself a contractor and bids for work. So here is the rule, in writing, the same way it appears in every engagement letter: we won't act for you on any package we're bidding or intend to bid. If we ever find ourselves on both sides of something, you'll hear it from us within a working day and we'll step off your side of it.
If you'd rather we simply never bid anything you're bidding while we work together, say so — and we'll write that into the agreement instead.