Process

Most of our projects follow three steps to contract pricing.

Preliminary Pricing
This is “ballpark” or what we’ve called “should we continue the conversation” pricing.  This will be based on comparing your plans to previous projects and is intended as a way to begin the conversation about costs.  The point here is to cut to the quick and avoid letting design get too far ahead of budget.  Preliminary pricing will not be very detailed and will typically cover a cost range.

Letter of Intent Pricing
It’s at this point that we really roll up our sleeves and look at the project piece by piece and develop an estimate that will outline the costs by phase. Our rule of thumb is that this round will provide you with a cost estimate typically to within 10% of the final, fully specified project.   At the same time we will start a list of questions that need to be answered and selections that need to be made in order to progress to Contract Pricing.