As a Tulsa commercial contractor, I have said the following with regards to work as a Tulsa commercial contractor, “…a Tulsa’s commercial contractor has to travel to pre-bids look to look at sites and get special instructions about the project and to understand it’s scope, and how it’s a Tulsa commercial responsibility to get the project out to subcontractors, but I would like to describe how a Tulsa commercial contractor decides what subcontractors to send a project to and why it is so important. To be clear, once a general contractor obtains the plans and specifications for a project, especially if you are a general contractor that self -performs little to no work, you must look through the project and determine the which trades will be needed to complete the project.
Some of the trades in commercial construction are very specialized and it is easy to overlook a relatively small item and not know that you need a special subcontractor and missing that item could leaving you guessing on bid day, and if you are blindly guessing it could ruin your bid.
The problem with guess is if you guess low and you are awarded the project and the subcontractor you find cost not only what you have in the bid to cover it but gets into the profit, and the counter to guessing to low is guessing so high that it keeps you from being competitive in the bid; however missing a specialty item all together is worse than guessing, especially if you are awarded the job, and that could be further complicated by when you actually figure that you missed an item.
Missing a part of the scope of work isn’t just limited to a specialized trade because often the specifications for the project will have a section for some specialized trades or items…” And, “…For the general contractor with a 5% cashier’s check it is a simple calculation, will moving to the next bidder cost more or less than the cashier’s check is worth coupled wit the amount of overhead and profit.
There would of course be other concerns when considering whether or not to just pull your bid. Building relationships with architect so you get invited to bid their work could severely be damaged by removing your bid. By missing an item and not catching it until after you were awarded the bid could suggest that you hadn’t read the plans thoroughly enough to complete the project.
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While it is up the individual trades to complete their scope of work it is the responsibility of the general contractor or the Tulsa commercial contractor to not only understand the bids with all the inclusions and exclusions but to understand the project and what all is going to be required to complete the project. We have to know what is required to complete each specific task or trade within the project and when they will overlap.
The general contractor can’t just send the plans and specifications out to list of subcontractors and rely on them to pick up the different items that apply to the various contractors. The general must go through the project and determine if what trades will be needed and send the plans and specifications to the specific subcontractors that do jobs. A contractor wouldn’t want to send a job that consists of a parking lot to a subcontractor that just does aluminum and glass.
If the contractor does that the subcontractors will not continue to look at the invitations to bid that do not pertain to them, and since the contractor needs to be able to answer questions from the subcontractor once the project is awarded and be able to coordinate the sometimes dozens of different subcontractors that could potentially be working on a project. The general contractor is ultimately responsible for everything that happens in the progression of the project and in a bonded project, relying solely on your subcontractors, could leave you in a difficult spot if there were something significantly wrong and the owner or architect cashed your performance bond.
After the bonding company paid the owner to complete and remedy the issue, the bonding would try and recoup its loss through suing and confiscation of the company’s assets…” With regards to the risk associated with being Tulsa Commercial contractor. In another article I said the following about fixing issues in a commercial construction problem, “…The first way to Tulsa commercial contractor can issue an RFI or a request for information is to fill out a form and fill out the rebel and fill out the relevant information on the form then attach a picture or a drawing to the form and send it to the architect for the architect to either then solve figure out or sent to an engineer for the engineer to solve or figure out. That is a formal request for information and typically would be accompanied by a AIA requirements documents. The second way and RFI can be issued is in formally in person or over the phone. An informal RFI would require only that the Tulsa commercial contractor reach out to the architect and get his or her verbal or email permission to proceed in a manner that the architect agrees with. In our current situation we feel that the limited amount of space in the bathroom would hinder the functionality of the building however the architect may not feel the same way…” and, “…The best idea is to leave the existing under slab mechanical electrical and plumbing lines in place and find an alternate solution however this alternate solution goes back to shrinking the classrooms where is your key part of the functionality of the building. Not to mention the overall size of the classrooms has been made smaller not through mistake but through a change in plans. Originally the building was supposed to be constructed of a pre-engineered metal building frame with six inch metal studs that our weight bearing hand the plans changed to be a pre-engineered metal building constructed of eight inch metal framing in the walls made of 4 inch metal studs that are non-weight-bearing.”
email permission to proceed in a manner that the architect agrees with. In our current situation we feel that the limited amount of space in the bathroom would hinder the functionality of the building however the architect may not feel the same way…” and, “…The best idea is to leave the existing under slab mechanical electrical and plumbing lines in place and find an alternate solution however this alternate solution goes back to shrinking the classrooms where is your key part of the functionality of the building. Not to mention the overall size of the classrooms has been made smaller not through mistake but through a change in plans. Originally the building was supposed to be constructed of a pre-engineered metal building frame with six inch metal studs that our weight bearing hand the plans changed to be a pre-engineered metal building constructed of eight inch metal framing in the walls made of 4 inch metal studs that are non-weight-bearing.”
These are the highlights of previous articles from being a Tulsa Commercial Contractor.