Three markets. One standard.
A finish schedule on a townhome and a unit price schedule on a federal solicitation are different problems. The takeoff discipline behind them is the same: CSI structure, verified quantities, U.S. pricing, senior sign-off.
Residential
Single-family and multi-family. Residential bids live and die on finish schedules and labor productivity — a wrong assumption on either one and the margin is gone before mobilization. We take off finishes room by room against the schedule, apply labor rates that match how crews actually produce, and price to the competitive sensitivity of the residential market: tight, defensible, no padding you'd have to explain.
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Commercial
Retail, office, warehouse, mixed-use. Commercial estimates fail at the interfaces: MEP coordination nobody priced, phasing that doubles mobilizations, trade scopes that overlap or leave a gap. We build the estimate around those interfaces — coordination items priced, phasing costs stated, trade-by-trade scope boundaries written into the assumptions so there's no argument later about whose number covered what.
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Government and federal
Schools, public facilities, municipal, state, and federal work. This is the market most estimating services won't touch, and it's the one we built the operation around.
Public work is a documentation problem as much as a pricing problem. The estimate has to comply with the specification exactly as written, follow the solicitation's bid format, and survive an audit — which means every quantity has to trace back to a drawing sheet and every rate has to have a source.
When the contract requires it, Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage labor is broken out separately from the base labor, by classification, so your bid holds up on wage compliance from day one. Bid forms and unit price schedules are completed to the solicitation's format — not to ours.
- ☑Strict specification compliance, as written
- ☑Davis-Bacon / prevailing wage separated by classification when required
- ☑Audit-ready documentation — every quantity traceable to a sheet
- ☑Bid forms and unit price schedules to the solicitation's format
Bidding public work in the DMV?
Send the solicitation and the drawings. We'll confirm scope, format, and turnaround before any work starts.
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