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About Freddie Ricx Consults

Freddie Ricx Consults Limited is a business legally registered in Zambia by the Patents and Companies Registration Agency-PACRA. The business which started as sole proprietorship in 2021 has since grown and now incorporated as a company limited by shares.

In terms of employee size, the business has six permanent employees and is managed by two Directors Fredrick Bwalya and Chitambeya Mukwangole who are also involved in delivering inter alia core services to our clients. To provide balance in the administration of the Firm, the business has outsourced other services such as the Human capital and development from Precision Recruitment International- PRI, and other corporate bodies both local and abroad, individual specialist consultants offering various services in the IT space, advisory etc.

Who We Are

We are a fast-growing business rooted with the heritage in Quantity Surveying, Project Management and Advisory services across sectors. Known for integrity, Freddie Ricx consults is a trusted brand that drives better investment outcomes for our clients.

Our Approach

Over the past decade, we’ve partnered with public and private clients across sectors—ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

Mission

"Providing professional end-to-end infrastructure development consultancy service with efficient, effective and client-focused solutions at every stage of the project lifecycle."

Vision

''Redefining excellence in the service delivery of infrastructure development with sustainable solutions and purpose-driven approach that transforms the environment.''

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“We build and leave a lasting legacy with every project by improving outcomes for clients, society, and our people.”

Values

Maintain Building trust:

Everyone representing the business prioritizes trust, strong work ethic, and accountability.

Bringing out the best in everyone:

We collaborate with international experts to offer continuous professional development and promote autonomy, encouraging innovation and responsibility

Quality:

We are committed to high-quality services and products, reinforced by thorough peer review.

Delivering Better Outcomes

“Delivering better outcomes” is our motto we ride on to deliver projects successfully to clients. It defines our approach and process through which projects are delivered. This ethos is underscored in driving value by having a deep understanding of what client’s investment goals are, what success means to them and how flexible is the regulatory environment to deliver the project successfully.

It involves setting up realistic targets and time frame to achieve the investment objectives, proactive communication, and maintaining transparency about progress and challenges, ensuring high quality and timely delivery while constantly looking for small extras that continue to drive performance and add value.

The process starts with having crystal-clear, outcome focused goals, then build a detailed plan with defined roles, managing risks proactively, ensuring constant stakeholder communication and tracking progress with key metrics, adapting as needed; focusing on “why” (value) not just “what” (tasks) drive success.

This interactive model aids in achieving great commercial outcomes for our clients thereby redefining excellence in the service delivery of infrastructure development across the globe.

Why Choose Freddie Ricx Consults

We are a unique brand that prides in delivering satisfaction to our clients because :

We understand the financing and funding regimes

We know how to work efficiently within a closely regulated environment

We really understand affordability

We maintain unquestionable project governance

We have a comprehension of the legal and cultural diversities

We understand how to contract appropriately

We support stakeholder management

We understand the challenges of mobilising stakeholders

We know how to manage delivery using in-country/ local labour force

We can develop specific and appropriate supply chain and procurement strategies

We are able to estimate realistic cost and schedule baselines

We take ownership of the performance agenda throughout, always looking for better ways to improve our client’s financial and contractual position.

Our depth of experience enables us to fully understand the challenges, plan for the desired outcomes, access the right capability, manage ambiguity, and continually apply data and insights to inform decision-making.

Market Leading

We are fast becoming a market leading Consultancy Firm in Zambia trusted to drive better investment outcomes for our clients across sectors. With the heritage rooted in cost and commercial management, we have a deep understanding of delivering capital programmes within the budget to meet our client’s needs.

Understanding the Market

Having delivered different capital programmes across sectors, we have a good understanding of the market and its dynamics. Our interaction with various players in the global supply chain has yielded a good industry network system to track the ever-evolving market prices. Our market research and department Unit collates the developments to build a strong commercial awareness for our clients.

Understanding Our Clients’ Needs

Clients focused

We are purpose driven and have a client focused approach to delivering better investment outcomes. While we understand that sometimes clients can have unlimited desires against budget constraints, we employ an approach that is directed at analyzing designed building features, systems, equipment, and material selections for the purpose of achieving essential functions at the lowest life cycle cost, consistent with required performance, quality, reliability, and safety.

Value for Money

Clients normally have different needs that often affect the expected delivery outcomes in terms of time, quality and cost. Sometimes their needs change during project execution due to many reasons. Regardless, we have mastered the art of working with different types of clients in meeting the project objectives at minimal cost while maintaining or improving its function. From outset of the project brief, we strive to identify key value drivers in a bid to define a path that would strike an optimum balance between the benefits expected of a project and the resources expended in the delivery. Once value drivers are clearly defined, we quickly allocate risks, quantify and track to manage them using the risk register. This normally suggests a coherent path for the type of cost-effective procurement model to use on a project. Apart from defining procurement route, we also strive to be at the center of programme management to track all risks associated with potential delays that would affect the project outcome in terms of cost and time. We have the required skillset in forecasting potential delays which if left unchecked and managed, could result in unnecessary contractual cost claims. We pride ourselves in seeing our clients elated at the application of our good industry experience in the management of contracts and costs.

Procurement

In achieving value for money on a project, one of the key elements we normally advise our clients not to neglect is the choice of procurement system. The choice of procurement system has potential to define and affect cost, quality and time of the project outcome. We are proud to underscore that we have good industry experience in managing projects procured under different types of procurement systems both for the public sector clients as well as private sector. We are also proud to underscore some of the successes we have achieved in being part of the industry stakeholders when establishing the bespoke of public procurement system Act No. 8 of 2020. We have a deep and tacit understanding in administering and managing government contracts as we have kept our minds alive with public regulations and laws (such as the public finance management Act No.1 of 2018) which forbids abuse of public resources while emphasizing the need to deliver value for money projects. We have a very strong background and proven record in delivering projects procured under various procurement systems, e.g., FIDIC, JBCC, NEC, ICE, World Bank Procurement System and Private Finance Initiative (i.e., Design and Build, Build Own Operate and Transfer, Construction management, PPP) etc.

Affiliations, Membership and Regulation

Freddie Ricx Consults is a business that is actively affiliated to different regulatory bodies both local and international and adheres to global industry practices.

For Quantity Surveying practice, the business is regulated by the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board (QSRB), regulatory body under the Zambia Institute of Quantity Surveyors (ZIQS).