“I know that I can leave all the administrative, legal, contractual and financial aspects to Imperial Consultants and concentrate on the actual scientific consulting.”
—Professor Andrew Rice, Faculty of Medicine

Ask Imperial Consultants for help with your project

You deliver the solutions – we do the rest. 

When you have been approached to carry out a piece of consultancy work, we recommend you contact Imperial Consultants before agreeing your rates or other details with your prospective client.

Here's an overview of how Imperial Consultants help you:  

  1. Due diligence. We ensure the project complies with any Imperial policies, there’s no reputational risk – and the client's credit rating suggests they can pay for services rendered. 
  2. Scope the project. We help you to define deliverables, a schedule, facilities, and dependencies – making sure your expectations and the clients are aligned. We also negotiate your fees, based on market rates - and help calculate other costs for the project. 
  3. Source your team or facilities. If you require additional personnel, or skillsets outside your own, we help identify others to join your project team. Imperial facilities can also be used, subject to agreement with the department in question, and usually in exchange for a fee.  
  4. Secure contracts. We negotiate a contract with the client that protects you, Imperial and any existing/foreground intellectual property. We advise you on any legal implications of the project such as data use, ownership and use of intellectual property created, and non-disclosure agreements. We ‘contract with’ anyone else in the project team, including third parties from outside Imperial. 
  5. Professional indemnity insurance. We provide this to cover your work on the project, unless you are operating through your own company.  
  6. Protection and promotion. We provide templates for your reports and presentations, and support you and the client with any communications and promotions related to your work, ensuring your reputation and that of Imperial is protected. 
  7. Billing and payment. Once the client is happy with the work delivered, we bill them and pay you, your colleagues and any third parties, according to the agreed budget. If any Imperial facilities have been used, we pay the department too. Plus we handle credit control.   

To find out how we can support your project, or to explore possibilities for consulting in your area, contact the Imperial Consultants team.