Fee Structures for Preconstruction Services and CM@Risk Projects

How much should you charge? How much can you charge? How should you structure it? What do you really want out of it?

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Raymond Braswell
November 9, 2015 2 minute read
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Answering these four questions sets the stage for effectively selling your preconstruction services.

Remember that your #1 priority must be leveraging your preconstruction services putting you in a position to build the project at a profitable fee level.  

  • Know how much your precon services cost on average as a percentage of the total project value.  Start with 0.5% to begin with if you don't know. 
  • Start tracking your costs so you learn more about the actual cost for the services you are providing.   
  • Develop a proposal and contract that will get you reimbursed for your services if you are successful at getting the customer to a constructable budget but they choose not to use your construction services.
  • If they do choose to use your construction services then the preconstruction services fee can be rolled into the General Conditions.  
Precon and CMAR: Fee Structures for Precon and CM at Risk Work.

There are obviously a lot more nuances than this but these are the basics to start with.  

 

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